AWK and multiple lines from shell command
Posted by Ktoso under coding (No Respond)
Let’s say you want to read the ps output inside an AWK script, it’s not so simple since system returns an exit code and not the string you want – it’s being sent to stdout, here is a simple trick to read multiple lines from a shell command inside awk: awk ‘BEGIN{while (“ps aux” | [...]
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