On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 00:36:48 -0500, John L. Cunningham wrote: > Well... > > head /etc/group |\ > awk '{"echo " $0 " | cut -d: -f1" | getline result; print result}' > > ...seems to work.
Great. Thanks. > But it is also very silly. Again, as I said, this is only *for the sake of illustration of filtering through external command*. I didn't want to complicate/distract the discussion on how to match a piece of segment on a complicated XML string then beautify it via external command tidy, then do further processing..., all within awk, make sense now? Thanks everyone! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/k7nbf4$vab$1...@ger.gmane.org