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running the system command ls-l in an awk script
Yes I do need to use AWK because I am studying that in my UNIX I class. Thanks -
running the system command ls-l in an awk script
What I am trying to do is get a number of directory files in my current directory. Here is a copy of my script and output BEGIN { print "The following are directory files" } { system( "ls-l " ) } END { print "There were...
