yo,<br><br> awk -f foo.awk textFile.txt<br><br>How do I determine [programmatically} from WITHIN "foo.awk" its own name [foo.awk].<br>ARGV/ARGC don't get populated with the "-f"<br>switch.<br><br>I do NOT want to "hard wire" the name of the script to vararable - the "foo.awk" file can be changed/copied, but the actual implementation should NOT.<br><br>All I want to do is to "reconstruct" the original awk invokation line.<br><br>Any bright ideas?<br><br>thanks<br>
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Try using the system function:<br><br>awk '{system(!!
)}'<br><br>This will print the last history command,<br>but does not execute it, which I believe<br>is what you wanted to capture.<br><br> <p>flogrr<br><a href=mailto:flogr@yahoo.com>flogr@yahoo.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br>
)}'<br><br>This will print the last history command,<br>but does not execute it, which I believe<br>is what you wanted to capture.<br><br> <p>flogrr<br><a href=mailto:flogr@yahoo.com>flogr@yahoo.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br>-
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Hey,<br><br> this is fine - solves the problem for the csh-derived shells.<br> I can probably "mimic" the behavior for the "ksh".<br><br> Any bright ideas as how to GENERALIZE this approach to<br>tackle a problem for the "shell independent" environment?<br><br>thanks for the help<br><br>vlad
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