Re: missing man example

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

root <address@hidden> writes:
> 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"}'

And the man pages are not the official source for documentation for
GNU utilities, info pages are.  The system command for gawk is
documented in the info pages.  See: (gawk)I/O Functions.

There also is an example of using | within gawk. See:
(gawk)Getline/Pipe, and also under: (gawk)Redirections.

Cheers,
-- 
Alfred M. Szmidt