Re: recursive awk

[Manuel Collado]

Mathieu escribió:
> I wanted to write an awk script to generate an dep list for a latex
> file. So I need to match \input{a} and run the same script on a.tex.
>
> The question is how to do awk recursively?

Add "a.tex" to the ARGV array, if not already there:

BEGIN { copy ARGV to dep }

/\\input/ {
   extract file module name = "somename.tex"
   if (!(name in dep)) { add name to ARGV, update ARGC }
}

END {
   for (name in dep) { print name }
}

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