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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to use shell command in awk ? Post 302292647 by Franklin52 on Sunday 1st of March 2009 06:14:23 AM
Old 03-01-2009
Possibilities:

Code:
awk 'BEGIN{"date" | getline d; print d; close("date")}
{# Other commands....}
' file

Or:

Code:
awk -v d="$(date)" 'BEGIN{print d}
{# Other commands....}
' file

Or:

Code:
awk 'BEGIN{system("date")}
{# Other commands....}
' file

Regards
 

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