Re: Simple awk question

Perl doesn't know echo only print

What you seem to want is open with a pipe-symbolš to write to awk's STDIN.

Calling awk from Perl is somehow strange, though, Perl was primarily designed to replace awk and sed .

if you just wanna pass a handful of variables better use arguments in backticks

my $result = `awk $var1 $var2`;

but I don't know much about awk (cause I don't need to ;-)

Cheers Rolf

(addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

š) like in

        
open(my $awk, "|awk >Tmp$$") # $$ is our process id
   or die "Can't start awk: $!";
print $awk $var1, $var2;
close $awk;
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Re^2: Simple awk question by RonW (Parson) on Jun 05, 2014 at 17:38 UTC
Calling awk from Perl is somehow strange, though, Perl was primarily designed to replace awk and sed . For what it's worth, there is the `a2p` tool to convert AWK scripts into Perl. It can be helpful in transitioning to Perl from AWK.	[reply] [d/l]