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In article <6785@umd5.umd.edu> zben@umd5.umd.edu (Ben Cranston) writes:
>awk 'BEGIN {
><7 pages of a pretty complicated awk program>
>}' $*
>
>and the additions pushed the size of the program over 8192 characters and
>evidently Unix has that limit on the size of "program arguments".
>
>Given the choice of purging the comments, throwing away the indentation,
>or shortening the variable names, I decided:

What I've seen done is to use sed to chew up the nice human-readable format...

FIND=`sed -e "s/	//" -e "s/ *#.*//" <<'EOT'
	gnarly indented awk program here 	# with comments like this..
EOT
`
awk "$FIND" arguments

You can even stick in some -e "s/longvariable/lv" substitutions to trim it
down even more.  (That first substitution deletes tab characters, by the way.)

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