awklib/eg/lib/nextfile.awk


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# nextfile --- skip remaining records in current file
# correctly handle successive occurrences of the same file
# Arnold Robbins, arnold@gnu.ai.mit.edu, Public Domain
# May, 1993

# this should be read in before the "main" awk program

function nextfile()   { _abandon_ = FILENAME; next }

_abandon_ == FILENAME {
      if (FNR == 1)
          _abandon_ = ""
      else
          next
}