Hi,

I am trying to pipe my print output to the awk but some how this doesn't seem to be right. Can some one help me to pipe my print command to awk and then redirect that to the file part_no_update.err?? 

print "$dir $t_spec $part_no $chg_lvl $int_lock error" | \ 
system("awk '{printf"%-13s %10s %7s %5s %4s - %5s\n",$1,$2,$3,$4,$5,$6
+}' >> /$view_tag/app_hwt/heavy_duty/part_no_update.err"); 

print "$dir $t_spec $part_no $chg_lvl $int_lock" | \ 
system("awk '{printf "%-13s %10s %7s %5s %4s - error, can not update p
+art number...\n\n",$1,$2,$3,$4,$5}'");

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Does the system command work on awk? If so how do i use it? Please advice I am a complete newbie.

Thanks

In reply to How to use print and pipe it to awk ? by sas429s

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