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awkThere are two ways to run awk--with an explicit program or with
one or more program files. Here are templates for both of them; items
enclosed in [...] in these templates are optional:
awk [options] -f progfile [--] file ... awk [options] [--] 'program' file ...
Besides traditional one-letter POSIX-style options, gawk also
supports GNU long options.
It is possible to invoke awk with an empty program:
awk '' datafile1 datafile2
Doing so makes little sense, though; awk exits
silently when given an empty program.
(d.c.)
If --lint has
been specified on the command line, gawk issues a
warning that the program is empty.