Notes on AWK scripting

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Writing AWK scripts Many large AWK scripts are wrapped in a useless shell script. If all of your logic is in AWK then there’s no need for the shell to get involves in things; just use the correct shebang! #!/usr/bin/awk -f BEGIN { print("start") } END { print("end") } Just make it executable and now you have a script written directly in AWK with no shells involved. Just make it executable (with…

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