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From: "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Storing a Linux shell command into an AWK variable
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2024 22:08:58 +0800
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On 7/3/2024 8:01 pm, Kenny McCormack wrote:
> Now, it is certainly your right not to tell us, and we don't really have
> any right to insist that you do, but it does limit the amount of help we
> can provide.  FWIW (and that might not be much), I think most of us are
> having a reaction of "Whatever it is you're trying to do, this is not the
> right way to do it".
> 
> Now, to be fair, you did give a slight hint as to what this was really
> about, somewhere upthread, where you indicated that this was a program that
> you got from someone/somewhere on the net and you just needed to modify it
> slightly to make it do what you wanted.  In that case, an "I just need help
> with one simple thing" type answer might actually be appropriate.  Again
> FWIW, I think most of the help-givers on this thread have assumed that this
> was your own program and that you are developing it from scratch.

I understand and thank all the suggestions here.