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Old 04-29-2010
Reading from standard input with awk
Hello,

Could somebody please give me an awk example on how to read from the standard input.
It means as the "read" function in Korn shell.

Thx in advance ...
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Old 04-29-2010
Use hyphen.

something like:

Code:
/home->awk '/^exit$/ {exit}{print}' -
Anchal
Anchal
exit
/home->

Last edited by clx; 04-29-2010 at 11:20 AM..
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Old 04-29-2010
thx a lot, it's working ...
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Old 04-29-2010
If leave out the hyphen, it should work as well.
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