You can write awk scripts directly if you start a file with a "awk -f" shebang or similar! I am not totally sure if this is what you mean or not, but it's much

You can write awk scripts directly if you start a file with a "awk -f" shebang or similar! I am not totally sure if this is what you mean or not, but it's much nicer than embedding the script into a bash source file.