igawk

igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ... igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ...

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.

See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports.

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

gawk(1) Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995.

Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com).