Re: doubts on awk possibilities

[Aharon Robbins]

Greetings. Re this:

> Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 10:18:01 -0300
> From: Mauricio de Andrade Ramos <address@hidden>
> Subject: doubts on awk possibilities
> To: address@hidden
>
> Hi, is it possible to call another awk program from one?

Yes. Use either system or getline and/or print, depending upon
what you want to d.

> 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?

I assume that by "vector" you mean an awk array. No, there's no way
to share data amongst processes like this, without writing it to an
intermediate file in a defined format and reading from it.

> Thank you in advance. Mauricio.

Glad to help.

Arnold