Using output of awk to run command

Question

I am brand new to shell scripting and cannot seem to figure out this seemingly simple task. I have a text file (ciphers.txt) with about 250 lines, and I would like to use the fi

Answer 1

Use system from within awk:

awk '{ system("openssl s_client -connect host:port -cipher " $1) }' ciphers.txt