Running Examples (The GNU Awk User’s Guide)
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11.1 Running the Example Programs
To run a given program, you would typically do something like this:
awk -f program -- options files
Here, program
is the name of the awk
program (such as cut.awk
), options
are any command-line options for the program that start with a ‘-
’, and files
are the actual data files.
If your system supports the ‘#!
’ executable interpreter mechanism (see section Executable awk Programs), you can instead run your program directly:
cut.awk -c1-8 myfiles > results
If your awk
is not gawk
, you may instead need to use this:
cut.awk -- -c1-8 myfiles > results