Insertng date in output records 1

[rufflocks]

I want to use awk to insert system date in a pipe-delimited file, so the output looks like:
firstname|lastname|20021203|address

The other fields of records in the file is created by the same awk script.

Thanks for any ideas?

 

[vgersh99]

BEGIN {
FS=OFS="|"
insertField="3"
dateCMD="date '+%Y%m%d'"
}

{
dateCMD | getline dateNow
close(dateCMD);
$3=dateNow OFS $3
print
}
vlad
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[rufflocks]

Thanks. It seems to work.