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Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:33:05 +0200
From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
Subject: Re: Shell scripts: variable assignment within read loops
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As I thought while reading your message, awk seems to be
a good solution. Just a note:

On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:29:03 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> Would you
> be ok with an awk(1) script instead of /bin/sh?  It tends to be nicer
> for this sort of thing, i.e.:
> 
> [...]
> $ netstat -nibd -f inet | awk -f david.awk

You could start your awk skript with

	#!/usr/bin/awk

and give it +x attribute, as well as adding the desired source
command "netstat -nibd -f inet" to the script, using awk's system()
function, so you can start it more easily or use it in combination
with other commands.

	% ./netstuff.awk


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