NAME

revtwoway - Reverse strings sample two-way processor extension

SYNOPSIS

@load "revtwoway"

BEGIN {


    cmd = "/magic/mirror"


    print "hello, world" |& cmd


    cmd |& getline result


    print result


    close(cmd)
}

DESCRIPTION

The revtwoway 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.

SEE ALSO

GAWK: Effective AWK Programming, filefuncs(3am), fnmatch(3am), fork(3am), inplace(3am), ordchr(3am), readdir(3am), readfile(3am), revoutput(3am), rwarray(3am), time(3am).

AUTHOR

Arnold Robbins, arnold@skeeve.com.

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