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170 GAWK: Effective AWK Programming10.2 Two-Way Communications with Another ProcessFrom: brennan@whidbey.com (Mike Brennan)Newsgroups: comp.lang.awkSubject: Re: Learn the SECRET to Attract Women EasilyDate: 4 Aug 1997 17:34:46 GMTMessage-ID: On 3 Aug 1997 13:17:43 GMT, Want More Dates??? wrote:>Learn the SECRET to Attract Women Easily>>The SCENT(tm) Pheromone Sex Attractant For Men to Attract WomenThe scent of awk programmers is a lot more attractive to women thanthe scent of perl programmers.--Mike BrennanIt is often useful to be able to send data to a separate program for processing and thenread the result. This can always be done with temporary files:# write the data for processingtempfile = ("mydata." PROCINFO["pid"])while (not done with data)print data | ("subprogram > " tempfile)close("subprogram > " tempfile)# read the results, remove tempfile when donewhile ((getline newdata < tempfile) > 0)process newdata appropriatelyclose(tempfile)system("rm " tempfile)This works, but not elegantly. Among other things, it requires that the program be run ina directory that cannot be shared among users; for example, ‘/tmp’ will not do, as anotheruser might happen to be using a temporary file with the same name.Starting with version 3.1 of gawk, it is possible to open a two-way pipe to another process.The second process is termed a coprocess, since it runs in parallel with gawk. The two-wayconnection is created using the new ‘|&’ operator (borrowed from the Korn shell, ksh): 1do {print data |& "subprogram""subprogram" |& getline results} while (data left to process)close("subprogram")The first time an I/O operation is executed using the ‘|&’ operator, gawk creates a twowaypipeline to a child process that runs the other program. Output created with printor printf is written to the program’s standard input, and output from the program’sstandard output can be read by the gawk program using getline. As is the case withprocesses started by ‘|’, the subprogram can be any program, or pipeline of programs, thatcan be started by the shell.1 This is very different from the same operator in the C shell, csh.
Chapter 10: Advanced Features of gawk 171There are some cautionary items to be aware of:• As the code inside gawk currently stands, the coprocess’s standard error goes to thesame place that the parent gawk’s standard error goes. It is not possible to read thechild’s standard error separately.• I/O buffering may be a problem. gawk automatically flushes all output down the pipeto the child process. However, if the coprocess does not flush its output, gawk mayhang when doing a getline in order to read the coprocess’s results. This could leadto a situation known as deadlock, where each process is waiting for the other one to dosomething.It is possible to close just one end of the two-way pipe to a coprocess, by supplying asecond argument to the close function of either "to" or "from" (see Section 4.8 [ClosingInput and Output Redirections], page 71). These strings tell gawk to close the end of thepipe that sends data to the process or the end that reads from it, respectively.This is particularly necessary in order to use the system sort utility as part of a coprocess;sort must read all of its input data before it can produce any output. The sortprogram does not receive an end-of-file indication until gawk closes the write end of thepipe.When you have finished writing data to the sort utility, you can close the "to" end ofthe pipe, and then start reading sorted data via getline. For example:BEGIN {command = "LC_ALL=C sort"n = split("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz", a, "")}for (i = n; i > 0; i--)print a[i] |& commandclose(command, "to")while ((command |& getline line) > 0)print "got", lineclose(command)This program writes the letters of the alphabet in reverse order, one per line, down thetwo-way pipe to sort. It then closes the write end of the pipe, so that sort receives anend-of-file indication. This causes sort to sort the data and write the sorted data back tothe gawk program. Once all of the data has been read, gawk terminates the coprocess andexits.As a side note, the assignment ‘LC_ALL=C’ in the sort command ensures traditional Unix(ASCII) sorting from sort.Beginning with gawk 3.1.2, you may use Pseudo-ttys (ptys) for two-way communicationinstead of pipes, if your system supports them. This is done on a per-command basis, bysetting a special element in the PROCINFO array (see Section 6.5.2 [Built-in Variables ThatConvey Information], page 113), like so:command = "sort -nr"PROCINFO[command, "pty"] = 1# command, saved in variable for convenience# update PROCINFO
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