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Article #423AWK and the system() command
From: K.VENNER
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1987 16:40
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1987 16:40
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To all you netlanders:
Here I sit, trying to write some utilities to handle distribution
lists, labels and electronic mail. What I am really trying
to do is replace a single line within a file with the output
of either a shell script or the output of a whole different file.
I am attempting to do something identical to the idea of
the "#include (filename)" statement within a "C" program.
The awk program would look like:
awk ' $1 == "The proper line" {system("cat file1") }'
Looking at the technical document on AWK (doc # 11272-850619-06TM)
page 24 is an example of what I am trying to accomplish.
Any suggestions, I am totally baffled, and right now the Unix
counseling at my site is too busy to get too much headway on
this problem.
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