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Created July 9, 2015 10:20
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gawk caches output of shell commands
[jkramer/mk-17:~]# <foo.awk
BEGIN {
for(i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
"date +%s" | getline sec
print sec
system("sleep 1")
}
}
[jkramer/mk-17:~]# gawk -f foo.awk
1436437135
1436437135
1436437135
1436437135
1436437135
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