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