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[Scollan, David]

# Try to print the contents of a file using a gawk function
# This does not work. You need to put the code in an awk script and use nawk -f awk_script < $FILE
# WHY?

FILE=$1
gawk '{
        function func1( param1 ){
                print param1
                return
        }
        func1( $0 )
}' $FILE    

Also, you can't put a ' in a comment but you can if you use gawk -f awk_script < $FILE as above  ie
This script will fail WHY?
gawk '{
        print $0                # The single quote isn't allowed in this comment
}' $FILE 

DS

Note im using -:
> uname -a
SunOS dom3 5.6 Generic_105181-23 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise-10000            

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