This will have issues because the $i is in quotes and thus awk will put a literal $i in the command rather than what is in column (field) i.
This will also have issues because awk will attempt to use 'grep,' and 'XYZ' as variable names -- they probably aren't assigned and thus evaluate to blanks. The contents of field i will be put in as the command, so who knows what will actually be executed (lets hope the second field doesn't contain rm *).
What you want is a combination:
Notice the space after the Z. If you don't put it there you'll likely get an error from grep, or other odd results.
I still am not convinced that your grep command is correct as I don't get the feeling that $(i) contains a filename to search. Maybe it does, but it seems unlikely from what you've posted. As birei suggested, post a sample of your XML and there's a good chance that you'll not need system() at all.
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LEARN ABOUT PLAN9
zgrep
ZGREP(1) General Commands Manual ZGREP(1)NAME
zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression
SYNOPSIS
zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...
DESCRIPTION
Zgrep invokes grep on compressed or gzipped files. These grep options will cause zgrep to terminate with an error code:
(-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*). All other options specified are passed directly to grep. If no file is specified, then the
standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep. Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep.
If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked.
EXIT CODE
2 - An option that is not supported was specified.
AUTHOR
Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca)
SEE ALSO grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1)ZGREP(1)