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Old 6th July 2011
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Default AWK passing the argument to system command

I was wondering if somebody could tell me if there is a way to pass argument to a system command in AWK. Namely, let suppose that I want to print calendar for September-November of 2011. I can do that with

Code:
#!/usr/bin/awk -f

BEGIN {FS=" "; OFS=""}
{
        system("cal 8 2011")
        system("cal 9 2011")
        system("cal 10 2011")
        system("cal 11 2011")
}
However I would like to be able to do something like
Code:
#!/usr/bin/awk -f

BEGIN {FS=" "; OFS=""}
{
{ for (i = 8; i <= 11; i++)
        system("cal $i 2011")
}
}
I also tried

Code:
#!/usr/bin/awk -f

BEGIN {FS=" "; OFS=""}
{
{ for (i = 8; i <= 11; i++)
        system("cal"  i "2011")
}
}
but no luck.

Anybody knows how to do this?

P.S. I am not interesting in the shell script or anything else. I want to do this with AWK.
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Code:
#!/usr/bin/awk -f

BEGIN {
  for (i=8; i<12; i++)
    system("cal" " " i " " 2011)
}
... or ...
Code:
#!/usr/bin/awk -f

BEGIN {
  for (i=8; i<12; i++) {
    while("cal" " " i " " 2011 | getline)
      print $0
  }
}
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If your numbers change often, you could make it an alias in .kshrc (or whatever shell you're using) as:
Code:
alias ca="awk 'BEGIN{for(i=ARGV[1]; i<ARGV[2]; i++) print \"cal \"i\" 2011\"}'"
That char escaping is needed. And then call it, for example, as:
Code:
$ ca 5 12
Apart from using awk's ARGV array, there is also "-v" option on (POSIX) compliant awk's for passing of shell variables to awk:

Code:
$ cat <<eof>test.awk
> #!/usr/bin/awk -f
>
> BEGIN{
> for(i=a; i<=b; i++) print "cal "i" 2011"}
> eof

$ ./test.awk -va=8 -vb=12
cal 8 2011
cal 9 2011
cal 10 2011
cal 11 2011
cal 12 2011
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Guys thank you so much. I realized how stupid I was as soon as I saw vermaden's answer. I cooked this based on your answers.

Code:
# This AWK script is written to automate generating of course calendar
# used for my syllabi
       
       
BEGIN {FS=" "; OFS="";
print "This program prints TeX calendar for the range of the months for the given year";
printf ("%s", "What is the year for which you want calendar? ") > "/dev/tty"
getline year < "/dev/tty";
printf ("%s", "Enter the first month for which you want calendar as number [1-12].  ") > "/dev/tty";
getline first_month < "/dev/tty";
printf ("%s", "Enter the last month for which you want calendar as number [1-12].  ") > "/dev/tty";
getline last_month < "/dev/tty";
{for (i=first_month; i<=last_month; i++)
        system("cal" " " i " " year)}   
}
{}
My goal is to automatically generate the snippet of TeX code which I use in my Syllabi. Something like follows just without lesson number (for examle without \tiny{6.6})
Code:
\begin{center}
\begin{small}
\begin{tabular}{||l|l|l|l|l||l|l|l|l|l||}
\hline
\multicolumn{5}{||c||}{January}&\multicolumn{5}{c||}{February}\\
\hline
\begin{minipage}{1cm}{\begin{center}Mon\end{center}}\end{minipage}&
\begin{minipage}{1cm}{\begin{center}Tue\end{center}}\end{minipage}&
\begin{minipage}{1cm}{\begin{center}Wed\end{center}}\end{minipage}&
\begin{minipage}{1cm}{\begin{center}Thu\end{center}}\end{minipage}&
\begin{minipage}{1cm}{\begin{center}Fri\end{center}}\end{minipage}&
\begin{minipage}{1cm}{\begin{center}Mon\end{center}}\end{minipage}&
\begin{minipage}{1cm}{\begin{center}Tue\end{center}}\end{minipage}&
\begin{minipage}{1cm}{\begin{center}Wed\end{center}}\end{minipage}&
\begin{minipage}{1cm}{\begin{center}Thu\end{center}}\end{minipage}&
\begin{minipage}{1cm}{\begin{center}Fri\end{center}}\end{minipage}\\
\hline
\tiny{3} & \tiny{4} & \tiny{5} & \tiny{6} & \tiny{7} &
\tiny{} & \tiny{1}  & \tiny{2} & \tiny{3} & \tiny{4} \\
        &          & \tiny{Intro}&        &            &
        &          &\tiny{1.4, 1.5} &          &        \\
        &          &\tiny{R.2, R.4} &          &          &
        &          &           &          &          \\
\hline
\tiny{10} & \tiny{11} & \tiny{12} & \tiny{13} & \tiny{14} &
\tiny{7} & \tiny{8}  & \tiny{9} & \tiny{10} & \tiny{11} \\
\tiny{R.4, R.5}&     &\tiny{R.7} &          &            &
\tiny{1,6, 1.7}     &     & \tiny{2.1, 2.2} &         &          \\
        &                     &          &          &          &
        &                     &          &          &          \\
\hline
\tiny{17} & \tiny{18} & \tiny{19} & \tiny{20} & \tiny{21} &
\tiny{14} & \tiny{15}  & \tiny{16} & \tiny{17} & \tiny{18} \\
\tiny{MLK} &        &\tiny{R.8}  &       &                 &
\tiny{2.3} &        & \tiny{2.5}   &         &             \\
\tiny{Day} &                       &          &            &       &
        &              &          &           &       \\
\hline
\tiny{24} & \tiny{25} & \tiny{26} & \tiny{27} & \tiny{28} &
\tiny{21} & \tiny{22}  & \tiny{23} & \tiny{24} & \tiny{25} \\
\tiny{1.1, 1.2} &       &\tiny{1.2, 1.3} &           &        &
\tiny{3.1, 3.2} &       &\tiny{Review}       &        &       \\
        &                     &          &            &       &
        &                    &          &             &      \\
\hline
\tiny{31} & \tiny{} & \tiny{} & \tiny{} & \tiny{} &
\tiny{28} & \tiny{}  & \tiny{} & \tiny{} & \tiny{} \\
\tiny{\bf Exam 1} &           &       &         &       &
\tiny{\bf Exam 2}   &          &    &         &      \\
        &          &          &        &     &
        &          &          &          &          \\
\hline
\multicolumn{5}{||c||}{March}&\multicolumn{5}{c||}{April}\\
\hline
\begin{minipage}{1cm}{\begin{center}Mon\end{center}}\end{minipage}&
\begin{minipage}{1cm}{\begin{center}Tue\end{center}}\end{minipage}&
\begin{minipage}{1cm}{\begin{center}Wed\end{center}}\end{minipage}&
\begin{minipage}{1cm}{\begin{center}Thu\end{center}}\end{minipage}&
\begin{minipage}{1cm}{\begin{center}Fri\end{center}}\end{minipage}&
\begin{minipage}{1cm}{\begin{center}Mon\end{center}}\end{minipage}&
\begin{minipage}{1cm}{\begin{center}Tue\end{center}}\end{minipage}&
\begin{minipage}{1cm}{\begin{center}Wed\end{center}}\end{minipage}&
\begin{minipage}{1cm}{\begin{center}Thu\end{center}}\end{minipage}&
\begin{minipage}{1cm}{\begin{center}Fri\end{center}}\end{minipage}\\
\hline
\tiny{} & \tiny{1} & \tiny{2} & \tiny{3} & \tiny{4} &
\tiny{} & \tiny{}  & \tiny{} & \tiny{} & \tiny{1} \\
        & \tiny{Midterm}&\tiny{3.4, 4.1}&   &      &
        &          &          &        &          \\
        &          &          &         &          &
        &          &          &         &          \\
\hline
\tiny{7} & \tiny{8} & \tiny{9} & \tiny{10} & \tiny{11} &
\tiny{4} & \tiny{5}  & \tiny{6} & \tiny{7} & \tiny{8} \\
\tiny{4.3, 4.5}&          &\tiny{5.4} &          &   &
\tiny{No} & \tiny{No}&\tiny{No}  &\tiny{No} & \tiny{No}\\
        &                     &          &          &          &
\tiny{Classes}& \tiny{Classes}& \tiny{Classes}& \tiny{Classes}&
\tiny{Classes}\\
\hline
\tiny{14} & \tiny{15} & \tiny{16} & \tiny{17} & \tiny{18} &
\tiny{11} & \tiny{12}  & \tiny{13} & \tiny{14} & \tiny{15} \\
\tiny{6.1, 6.2}&     &     \tiny{6.3} &       &      &
\tiny{Review} &      & \tiny{\bf Exam 3} &       & \\
        &              &          &            &       &
        &              &          &            &       \\
\hline
\tiny{21} & \tiny{22} & \tiny{23} & \tiny{24} & \tiny{25} &
\tiny{18} & \tiny{19}  & \tiny{20} & \tiny{21} & \tiny{22} \\
\tiny{6.4}&          &\tiny{6.5}   &      &         &
\tiny{8.1}&     & \tiny{Review}     &      &     \\
        &       &       &        &       &
        &       &       &     &\\
\hline
\tiny{28} & \tiny{29} & \tiny{30} & \tiny{31} & \tiny{} &
\tiny{25} & \tiny{26}  & \tiny{27} & \tiny{28} & \tiny{29} \\
\tiny{6.6}&          &\tiny{6.7} &        &      &
\tiny{Review}&        &\tiny{Review}&        &      \\
        &          &             &        &     &
        &          &             &        &          \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{small}
\end{center}
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A bit late to the party, but awk's sprintf() can be useful for this sort of thing,

Code:
for( j=9; j<12; j++ ) { system( sprintf( "cal %d 2011 ", j ) ) }
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Quote:
Originally Posted by IdOp View Post
A bit late to the party, but awk's sprintf() can be useful for this sort of thing,

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for( j=9; j<12; j++ ) { system( sprintf( "cal %d 2011 ", j ) ) }
It is never too late Thank you so much!!! I love playing with AWK
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