Re: [SLUG] Awk Question

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Tue Nov 06 2001 - 18:30:09 EST


On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 06:00:08PM -0500, Ronan Heffernan wrote:

> Paul M Foster wrote:
>
> This is an obscure one, just for you awk gurus.
>
> I have some scripts which begin:
>
> #!/bin/mawk -We
>
>
>
> Paul-
> Have you tried telling gawk to use the script as input? I don't know
> if it will have trouble ignoring the first line ("#!/bin/mawk") or not.
> If so, you could use grep to make a temp copy without that line.
> Anyway, maybe change the first line to "#!/bin/gawk -f $0" . You will
> probably get an error, however, when gawk is finished and the rest of
> the "script" tries to execute. Maybe you could clobber the existing
> process by using some form of "exec" so that when gawk exits, the
> process that was the script, terminates.
> --ronan
>
>

Actually, it appears that awk -f alone does it.

Paul



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