Re: missing man example

[root]

> The online version of the gawk manual may be found at
>
>       http://www.gnu.org/manual/gawk/
>
> I still don't see why passing data to echo is more useful
> than something like
>
>       ls | awk '{ print "something about", $0, "here" }'

not nessesairly echo, but it is rather lack of 'system' command
in man and that | command can be used from within awk.
it really helps when you do i.e.
tail -f access_log | awk '/spies_in_space.html/ {system "nmap " $1 ">>
/var/log/httpd/spies_in_space.html"}'