Execute awk output with continuous streaming input

Shell Programming and Scripting
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I need to parse some continuous output from a program (i.e. aScript.py ) into a portal that uses curl . I've written a simple awk one-liner to parse the information that is output from aScript.py , but I'm not able to execute it. I can succeed with just one line of the output from aScript.py : echo curl "awk output" | xargs curl , but this doesn't work for continuous output from the aScript.py program. Here is what I want to be able to do:

 aScript.py --user aUser:userPswd server.org PORT CODE | awk -F, 'NR>6 {print "curl \42http://aServerSomewhere.com/measurements/url_create?instrument_id=1&VAR1="substr($5,1,2)substr($5,5)"&VAR2="substr($7,1,3)"&VAR3="substr($12,4)"\42"}' | execute awk output (what to do here?)

In this example aScript.py is extracting data that is continuously collected. My awk line is parsing the output into a line necessary for porting the data into a program. How can I get the output of my awk line to execute continuously as the data comes in? Perhaps a loop is necessary?

Solved with:

 aScript.py --user aUser:userPswd server.org PORT CODE | awk -F, 'NR>6 {cmd="curl \42http://aServerSomewhere.com/measurements/url_create?instrument_id=1&VAR1="substr($5,1,2)substr($5,5)"&VAR2="substr($7,1,3)"&VAR3="substr($12,4)"\42";system(cmd)}'
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Have your awk output commands for the shell and pipe that into sh.

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This one doesn't work because, it seems, that sh will only execute once the output from my aScript.py is finished. aScript.py runs continuously. I found the solution with the following:

 aScript.py --user aUser:userPswd server.org PORT CODE | awk -F, 'NR>6 {cmd="curl \42http://aServerSomewhere.com/measurements/url_create?instrument_id=1&VAR1="substr($5,1,2)substr($5,5)"&VAR2="substr($7,1,3)"&VAR3="substr($12,4)"\42";system(cmd)}'