06-30-2011
Wow! Thanks for the great explanation! It was easy to follow and exactly what I needed. As you point out, it's not as concise as you could do with a shell script but your implementation is still clean and self-contained.
The only problem I had was with "--exec". Though the awk documentation indicates this is exactly what I need for some reason it didn't like that option and kept displaying the usage message. I changed this to "-f" and used the "--" characters to terminate the awk options ... good enough though not ideal.
Thanks again! ;-)
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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)