PROCESS FILE CONTAINING AWK COMMANDS

[lesy]

I wrote some awk commands to extract data between 2 keywords. In it I specified the input file to work on and the output file to save the data. Now I would like to combine the awk commands with the input file.

For example, the file would be something like:

KEYWORD1
data1
data2
data3
data4
KEYWORD2

awk .... infile >outfile

Is there some keyword that I can use for "infile" that tells awk to work on the file it resides in?

Thank you.

 

[PHV]

getline ?
Can you please explain CLEARLY your issue ?

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[futurelet]

[tt]
awk -f myprogram.awk infile >outfile
[/tt]

 

[PHV]

Ah ...
man awk