[GRASS5] wrapper for awk?

[Justin Hickey]

Hi Markus

Markus Neteler wrote - slightly rearranged:
> Maybe "gawk" is a requirement which can't be fulfilled everywhere,
> then we should consider option 2.

Yes, some machines do not install gawk by default, one being SGI.

However,

> I have just checked SUN's awk which offers:
> 
> awk
> awk: Usage: awk [-Fc] [-f source | 'cmds'] [files]
                                     ^^^^^^
This is also the case on SGI so why can't we use awk? From the 
fig2grass script we have the following

gawk --source='

function formerr() {
    printf "*** WRONG FIG 3.2 FORMAT ! ***\n"
    exit 1
}
<skip>
' $1 $2

So why can't we do the following?

awk '

function formerr() {
    printf "*** WRONG FIG 3.2 FORMAT ! ***\n"
    exit 1
}
<skip>
' $1 $2

If this does not work, then the only option is the second one. That is,
store the awk script in a separate file and have fig2grass call

awk -f fig2grass.awk

or something like that.

Just my 2 cents worth.

-- 
Sincerely,

Jazzman (a.k.a. Justin Hickey)  e-mail: jhickey at hpcc.nectec.or.th
High Performance Computing Center
National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC)
Bangkok, Thailand
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