Question

In a shell script we can connect to a Database using sqlplus on unix.
can i perform the same thing inside an awk script?
i need to access the output of a select query inside an awk script.is that possible?

Answer 1

I’d do the query and feed the output of it into awk:

sqlplus 'select onething from another' | awk '{ weave awk magic here }'

Just like any other command:

pax> ls -alF | awk '{print $9}'
    file1.txt
    file2.txt
    my_p0rn_dir/