windows - Want an AWK that implements '@include' -

in gawk manual have describes @include operator. lets make .awk modules , share scripts, etc. include files.

so far latest cgywin, mingw , gnu awk-s (awk, gawk, mawk, nawk, ...) i've found windows fail on first: @include statement.

can point me version implements whole nawk or awk implementation windows? pretty sure there @ least 1 nawk, in day, had downloaded run windows nt.

alternately work around helpful in meantime. (say pre-tested awk includer program??)

tia, will

as far can tell, @include files not supported natively gawk until 4.x. however, @ least on linux, ships shell script called igawk can use instead; preprocesses awk scripts , replaces @includes contents of included file (found via $awkpath). perhaps cygwin has script?

$ cat foo.awk @include bar.awk $ cat bar.awk begin {print "hello, world!" } $ awk -f foo.awk awk: foo.awk:1: @include bar.awk awk: foo.awk:1: ^ invalid char '@' in expression $ gawk -f foo.awk gawk: foo.awk:1: @include bar.awk gawk: foo.awk:1: ^ invalid char '@' in expression $ igawk -f foo.awk hello, world! 

note, however, igawk , gawk 4's @include syntaxes not compatible. native @include in gawk 4 requires quoted string included filename; igawk's takes bareword, , try find file quotation marks in name if quote it.