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echo "yourStringToBeTested" |grep -E "[0-9]{5}" && echo "ok" || echo "wrong"

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system() call inside awk will not print anything on the screen I guess! But your script should get executed. You can redirect the output to some log and check.

Code:

/user/ahamed $ echo 1 | awk '{system("echo printme")}'
/user/ahamed $

--ahamed

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