07-08-2011
@Corona688: You make very good points here, and I believe you are essentially affirming my main point - don't put lots of little programs together in tight loops and expect good performance from a shell script.
Honestly though, -- and I know this is just my personal opinion -- I think awk is a scourge upon our land. Like kudzu, it should be ripped out where ever it is found and replaced with something less inscrutable. I don't think there is any reason in 2011 to continue using an such an ancient, arcane, difficult to debug tool like awk when there are so many better choices available. - I'm Just Sayin'...
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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)