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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk - oneliner vs multiple line . Post 302757691 by rveri on Thursday 17th of January 2013 11:55:25 PM
Old 01-18-2013
awk - oneliner vs multiple line .

Dear Awk Experts,

I can write oneliner some time but find difficulty writing like a flow of a program in multiple lines,

could you please help how to write awk program , like long awk programs, any help to start with,

For example,
How to write this in multiple line:

Code:
ls -l | awk '{sum+=$5}END{print sum}'


what is equivalent of this in terms of file.awk if want to pass through a file.


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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