Awk a external Command and Get line

Question

I am trying to see whats the best way to extract the 3rd line from this command but i can't seem to get it

awk 'BEGIN{while("service ipsec status" | getline x) print  x}'

awk is a tool for parsing text, it is not an environment from which to call external tools. That would be a shell. Using getline is rarely the right approach, see http://awk.info/?tip/getline. — Ed Morton, Jul 29 '13 at 14:29

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 29 '13 at 14:30

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service ipsec status | awk 'NR==3'

answered Jul 29 '13 at 14:30

Ed Morton

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 29 '13 at 14:33

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Using sed:

service ipsec status | sed '3!d'

answered Jul 29 '13 at 14:33

devnull

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