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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting AWK alias with parameters Post 302257035 by majormark on Tuesday 11th of November 2008 08:07:25 AM
Old 11-11-2008
AWK alias with parameters

Hello,

How can I make an alias of an AWK one liner that prints specific lines from a file like below?
Code:
# from a command like this:
awk 'NR == 100, NR == 150' file.cfg

The alias I want to make should work like this(I guess):
 <alias_command> <file.cfg><start_line><end_line>

So the line numbers can be attached at the end of the file name like file.cfg_100_150 and the AWK should parse the file name first in order to get the lines(if that's possible).

Thanks.
 

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IGAWK(1)							 Utility Commands							  IGAWK(1)

NAME
igawk - gawk with include files SYNOPSIS
igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ... igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ... DESCRIPTION
Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1). AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like @include getopt.awk in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path. OPTIONS
See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports. EXAMPLES
cat << EOF > test.awk @include getopt.awk BEGIN { while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1) ... } EOF igawk -f test.awk SEE ALSO
gawk(1) Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995. AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com). Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)
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