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From: pdg@ihdev.UUCP (P. D. Guthrie)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: passing command line arguments to awk
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Date: Mon, 2-Jun-86 13:55:23 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  2 13:55:23 1986
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Newer versions of awk have direct command line argument access through
the pseudo-variables ARGC and ARGV.  ARGV[0] is  naturally the programme
name as invoked.  If stdin is used for input, '-' is added as the last
argument.
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