How to use multiple arguments for awk with a shebang (i.e. #!)?

Question

I\'d like to execute an gawk script with --re-interval using a shebang. The \"naive\" approach of

#!/usr/bin/gawk --re-interval -f
... awk scri         


        

Answer 1

Why not use bash and gawk itself, to skip past shebang, read the script, and pass it as a file to a second instance of gawk [--with-whatever-number-of-params-you-need]?

#!/bin/bash
gawk --re-interval -f <(gawk 'NR>3' $0 )
exit
{
  print "Program body goes here"
  print $1
}

(-the same could naturally also be accomplished with e.g. sed or tail, but I think there's some kind of beauty depending only on bash and gawk itself;)