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Is there any way to run bash commands from within awk?

I want to use 'read' command inside awk but it's not working. Is there any workaround?

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  • you can't use read inside awk if it already piped, if not, then {} doing the same, also system() can run command Commented May 6, 2018 at 12:52
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    What do you want to achieve? Would awk's own getline help? Or are you trying to do something interactive? Commented May 6, 2018 at 12:53
  • this will read output of ls to a awk 'BEGIN{"ls" |& getline a;print a}' Commented May 6, 2018 at 12:57
  • @Kusalananda I want the solution for any command and not just for read Commented May 6, 2018 at 13:13
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    XY problem. Please describe your task, and ignore the technology you think you need to use. Commented May 6, 2018 at 15:46

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# gawk 'BEGIN {system("touch /tmp/aaaa")}'
# ls /tmp/aaaa
/tmp/aaaa
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