another command in awk field

Lazy Lizard answered on March 4, 2022 Popularity 1/10 Helpfulness 1/10

answer another command in awk field

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#pipe command into getline and to a variable
#Ex:
awk -F: '{"wc -l "$1 | getline c; printf("%s\n",c)}'

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