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Old 06-19-2008
How to execute local function in awk

Hi All,

Can you please tell me how to execute local function written in a shell script with awk.

i tried with system command but its giving an error.
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Old 06-19-2008
You cannot do that. Create a separate shell script file as a function wrapper with just the shell function -- call the script from inside awk as an external command:
Code:
print | "shelscript.sh"

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