Gawk
From wikinotes
AWK is a scripting language that was originally designed for manipulating tables and presenting them in human-readable formats. It is useful on the commandline, I'd prefer to use a more powerful language than awk than use it for scripting.
WARNING:
There are two main variations of the unix coreutils (Gnu/BSD), each has different parameters etc. If you are expecting to use awk across different platforms, make no assumptions.
Notes
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Syntax
system
Executes a command in shell or cmd from an awk script. Assigning to a variable only gives return value (1,0)
system(ls -la);math
var+= 1; var=( (100/2) * 3 );References
http://www.funtoo.org/wiki/Awk_by_Example,_Part_1 http://www.math.utah.edu/docs/info/gawk_7.html