As I am not the first one to shamelessly self plug: I made ngetopt.awk[0] an argument parser for GNU awk that handles long options as well. I've been using it

As I am not the first one to shamelessly self plug: I made ngetopt.awk[0] an argument parser for GNU awk that handles long options as well. I've been using it quite a bit, to transform a three-liner awk program into a full fledged command in little effort. Very nice to share with colleagues. [0]: https://github.com/joepvd/ngetopt.awk https://github.com/joepvd/ngetopt.awk