Re: doubts on awk possibilities

[Juergen Kahrs]

Mauricio de Andrade Ramos wrote:

> Hi, is it possible to call another awk program from one?

Use the system() function of AWK.
It invokes a standard Bourne shell (sh).
You can invoke AWK from the shell with this method.

> Is it possible
> to pass, as a parameter, a vector of one program to another or share
> this vector and make it accessible by a shell script? Thank you in
> advance. Mauricio.

BEGIN {
 a=3
 system("name_of_script.sh 1 2 " a)
}