awk comments

[Robert R. Bleck]

tang at motcid.UUCP (Sam D. Tang) writes:

>How does one add comments to an awk program?


A comment starts with the # character and finishes at the end of a line. 
Like:

{ print $1, $3 }	# print first and third column

Or:

# This program prints the first and third column

{ print $1, $3 }



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