Re: awk pipe and system call

Ed Morton wrote:

>> - use myvar1 and myvar2, without the "$";
> 
> Not if he's trying to get $0 and $1.
> 
> He should still be seeing the concatenation of $0 and $1 with what he
had
> (though all he said was that it "never works" so maybe that IS what he's
> seeing and it's just not what he expected).

Ah yes, that's another possibility. Mine was just my interpretation of the
problem, and admittedly he did not provide too much context or details. 

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