Answer by Ed Morton for How to print own script name in mawk?
With GNU awk 4.1.3 in bash on cygwin: $ cat tst.sh #!/bin/awk -f BEGIN { print "Executing:", ENVIRON["_"] } $ ./tst.sh Executing: ./tst.sh I don't know how portable that is. As always, though, I...
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Using GNU awk Checking the GNU awk user's guide - 7.5.2 Built-in Variables That Convey Information I stumbled upon: PROCINFO # The elements of this array provide access to information about the running...
View ArticleAnswer by cuonglm for How to print own script name in mawk?
With POSIX awk: #!/usr/bin/awk -f BEGIN { print ENVIRON["AWKSCRIPT"] } Then: AWKSCRIPT=test.awk ./test.awk test.awk
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I don't know any direct way of getting the command name from within awk. You can however find it through a sub-shell. gawk With GNU awk and the ps command you can use the process ID from...
View ArticleAnswer by taliezin for How to print own script name in mawk?
I don't think this is possible as per gawk documentation: Finally, the value of ARGV[0] (see section 7.5 Built-in Variables) varies depending upon your operating system. Some systems put awk there,...
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In bash $0 contains the name of the script, but in awk if I make a script named myscript.awk with the following content: #!/usr/bin/awk -f BEGIN{ print ARGV[0] } and run it, it will only print "awk"....
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