B20: problems with pipes in AWK !

["Holger Kopf" <Holger dot Kopf at datronic dot de>]

Hi,

 

i try to develop some solutions with awk on a Windows NT 4.0,

 

One of the features of awk on UNIX is to evaluate inputs which

i can receive from a pipe.

 

But on NT i can't do so !

 

for example the following awk-script doesn't work:

 

    {

        "ls -l | sort -r " | getline xxx;

        print xxx;

    }

 

The commands ls and sort do not work in that example.

 

On a Unix-System it works very well.

 

Please give me a little help....

 

 

CU

 

Holger Kopf

Germany