[bug-gawk] Passing Parameters to Gawk Executable Script

[Mitchell Pryor]

This may not be a bug, but it seems like one to me.

Script:

#!/bin/gawk -v num=$1 -f
BEGIN {
    print "num=" num

}

When I try to execute this script as follows why does it say that 'num' is an illegal variable?

./myscript <some-number> <some-text-file>

Is '-f' the only allowable switch for gawk within an executable format?  I can't find any documentation addressing this specific situation.

Thanks for any help you can give.

Mike