Re: missing man example

[Aharon Robbins]

> Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 13:20:59 +0000 (UTC)
> From: root <address@hidden>
> To: Aharon Robbins <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: missing man example
>
> > 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"}'

Ah, OK.  I'll see what I can do.

Arnold