IGAWK (1)

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

B @include getopt.awk R

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

B
cat << EOF > test.awk
@include getopt.awk
BEGIN {
        while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1)
                .\^.\^.
}
EOF
igawk -f test.awk
R

SEE ALSO

- gawk (1) -

AWK Language Programming Edition 1 0 published by the Free Software Foundation 1995

AUTHOR

Arnold Robbins ( arnold@gnu.org ).