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[BCyo+8C4]

Hi,
I'd like to call awk from a tcl script, but for some reason it doesn't work. No error message returned.

In my tcl I have this line to call the script:

[demond]

escape curly braces with backslashes
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[BCyo+8C4]

the problem is not the brackets, even this test code doesn't work when called from tcl:

[demond]

my guess is that space between the redirection character and output file name is not being interpreted as in shell

try without it, i.e. >bans-$chan-tmp.txt
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[rosc2112]

Tcl Built-In Commands - exec manual page

If an arg (or pair of args) has one of the forms described below then it is used by exec to control the flow of input and output among the subbprocess(es). Such arguments will not be passed to the subprocess(es). In forms such as ``< fileName'' fileName may either be in a separate argument from ``<'' or in the same argument with no intervening space (i.e. ``<fileName'').


> fileName
Standard output from the last command is redirected to the file named fileName, overwriting its previous contents.

[rosc2112]

[BCyo+8C4]

got it. it was the ' chars + the space after >

working code: