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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!infoserv!incc!jerry
  2. From: jerry@incc.com (Jerry Rocteur)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
  4. Subject: Re: Awk question
  5. Summary: awk getline function
  6. Message-ID: <119.30995@incc.com>
  7. Date: 2 Sep 92 18:32:06 GMT
  8. References: <BtxLJ3.BzE@nntp-sc.Intel.COM>
  9. Organization: InCC.com Perwez Belgium
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  12. In article <BtxLJ3.BzE@nntp-sc.Intel.COM>, brodesky@td2cad.intel.com (Michael Brodesky) writes:
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  15. > I would like to get the current year into my awk program. Any
  16. > clues into doing this?
  17. > 
  18. awk ' BEGIN { "date +%y" | getline da}'
  19.  
  20.  
  21. da now contains the output from your date program.
  22.  
  23. Look at your manual for date to see what your options are??
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