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From: gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack)
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Subject: Which, as noted, is ugly and not AWK (Was: A feature I'd like to see in GAWK...)
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2024 16:25:28 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <669683b6$0$713$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>,
Mack The Knife  <mack@the-knife.org> wrote:
>While this is interesting, it can actually be done very easily from the
>shell level, using process substitution:
>
>	awk -f foo.awk <(df -l) <(df)

Which, as noted in the OP, is ugly and not AWK, but rather shell.
(As I said, we all know the workarounds - and we all know they are ugly)

And it doesn't work if you have to calculate the value of the process to
run inside the AWK script (which isn't the case with my "df" example, but
is why I used the phrase "not always sufficient").

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