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Gawk trying to get time in milisec start and end of program. 1st "echo %time%" | getline startT, works like a charm. 2nd "echo %time%" | getline stopT, yeilds NADA. for some reason the second %time% does not work. ......any ideas? Thanks, Joe

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  • Post a [mcve] so we can try to help you (chances are you're not closing the pipe between invocations but without seeing the full code...). – Ed Morton Apr 12 '16 at 00:43

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example BEGIN{ "echo %time%" | getline t1 "echo %time%" | getline t2

      print "t1="t1"  t2="t2

}

This yeilds t1= 9:36:12.60 t2=

using gawk windows environment

for now I'm using system("echo %time% > starttime.txt") getline P_start < "starttime.txt"

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