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Re: doubts on awk possibilities
From: |
Aharon Robbins |
Subject: |
Re: doubts on awk possibilities |
Date: |
Wed, 16 May 2007 22:09:22 +0300 (IDT) |
Greetings. Re this:
> Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 10:18:01 -0300
> From: Mauricio de Andrade Ramos <address@hidden>
> Subject: doubts on awk possibilities
> To: address@hidden
>
> Hi, is it possible to call another awk program from one?
Yes. Use either system or getline and/or print, depending upon
what you want to d.
> Is it possible to pass, as a parameter, a vector of one program to
> another or share this vector and make it accessible by a shell script?
I assume that by "vector" you mean an awk array. No, there's no way
to share data amongst processes like this, without writing it to an
intermediate file in a defined format and reading from it.
> Thank you in advance. Mauricio.
Glad to help.
Arnold