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

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).