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Mar 7, 2014 at 23:46 answer added vonbrand timeline score: 1
Mar 7, 2014 at 21:40 comment added Graeme Note that along with the list above, awk also has builtin functions - here is a list for gawk (GNU awk) cs.utah.edu/dept/old/texinfo/gawk/gawk_13.html. Among them is the system function which can be used to run arbitrary programs/commands, although generally there are better solutions than to use this.
Mar 7, 2014 at 21:04 answer added Stéphane Chazelas timeline score: 3
Mar 7, 2014 at 20:53 history edited user1766760 CC BY-SA 3.0
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Mar 7, 2014 at 20:50 comment added user1766760 @devnull Thanks - I never realized that awk has a specific, and very limited set of commands... shame on me I'll have to add it to my reading list.
Mar 7, 2014 at 19:31 comment added goldilocks Me thinks devnull summed this up.
Mar 7, 2014 at 19:29 comment added devnull head isn't an awk command.
Mar 7, 2014 at 19:28 comment added goldilocks @manatwork : Yeah, bang on. I don't use awk much but it just occurred to me that print is internal. Throw up an answer if you're sure.
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