[ILUG] Little code, please

[Paul Jakma]

On Tue, 2 May 2006, Brendan Halpin wrote:

> I have a little sh/awk pair that does that for bibtex:
>
> +-------------------------------------------------------------------
> |#! /bin/bash
> |gawk -f whole-bib.awk -v text="$1" $2
> +-------------------------------------------------------------------

> +-------------------------------------------------------------------
> |BEGIN {RS = "@"; status=1;}
> |
> |{if ($0 ~ text)
> |  {
> |    print RS $0;
> |    status=0;
> |  }
> |}
> |
> |END {exit status}
> +-------------------------------------------------------------------

You can just edit your whole-bib.awk file and add to the above 
something like (untested, but you get the drift[1]):

#!/bin/env gawk -f
BEGIN {
   text = "";

   for (i = 1; i < ARGC; i++) {
     if (ARGV[i] ~ /^(-t|--text)/)
       if ((i + 1) < ARGC)
         text = ARGV[i+1]
   if (text == "")
    exit 1;
}

then chmod a+x whole-bib.awk, and get rid of the shell script. Just 
invoke whole-bib.awk directly:

$ ./whole-bib.awk --text whatever filename

1. See, e.g., http://hibernia.jakma.org/~paul/duplicate-files.awk

regards,
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