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Interaction between awk and a private gcc-compiled program
Your answer works fine. Thx futurelet!! -
awk for a specific word and only that word
Hello, The simplest is to add a space before $i in your grep: => grep " \<$i\>" instead of grep "\<$i\>" . It works but isn't too elegant. Your problem is that grep "admin" returns 2 lines. grep -w doesn't seem too helpful. Special regexps in egrep should do. But here again nothing seems... -
Interaction between awk and a private gcc-compiled program
Hello, I need to interact awk with an existing program (gcc-compiled) I wrote. This gcc-program takes arguments at the command line and returns a number. More precisely, the arguments are listed in a text file ; I need awk to fetch the arguments, serve them as input to the gcc-program and ...
