awk ¶There 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 ...
In addition to 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.