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<H1>REVTWOWAY</H1>
Section: GNU Awk Extension Modules (3am)<BR>Updated: Feb 21 2018<BR><A HREF="#index">Index</A>
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<H2>NAME</H2>
revtwoway - Reverse strings sample two-way processor extension
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<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2>
@load &quot;revtwoway&quot;
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BEGIN {
cmd = &quot;/magic/mirror&quot;
print &quot;hello, world&quot; |&amp; cmd
cmd |&amp; getline result
print result
close(cmd)
}
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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2>
The
<I>revtwoway</I>
extension
adds a simple two-way processor that reverses the characters
in each line sent to it for reading back by the AWK program.
It's main purpose is to show how to write a two-way extension, although
it may also be mildly amusing.
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<H2>SEE ALSO</H2>
<I>GAWK: Effective AWK Programming</I>,
<I>filefuncs</I>(3am),
<I>fnmatch</I>(3am),
<I>fork</I>(3am),
<I>inplace</I>(3am),
<I>ordchr</I>(3am),
<I>readdir</I>(3am),
<I>readfile</I>(3am),
<I>revoutput</I>(3am),
<I>rwarray</I>(3am),
<I>time</I>(3am).
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<H2>AUTHOR</H2>
Arnold Robbins,
<B><A HREF="mailto:arnold@skeeve.com">arnold@skeeve.com</A></B>.
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<H2>COPYING PERMISSIONS</H2>
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Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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