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1. two simple nawk questions, Sunos 4.1.2 and nawk

I am trying to nawk through a file and change in the 20th field the value
of the date from mo/da/year, as in 02/30/1993, to mo/ld/year, as in
02/28/1993( where da is any particular day, even wrong ones, and ld is the
correct last day of the month), and the two problems I can't solve are,
that I can't get the shell wrapper to work like I would like without having
to specify a file on the command line, and I am having trouble finding a
way to print out the line when I am done, using ranges, like $1-$19.

I would like to do:

1)
#! /bin/nawk -f # Call the nawk script without any parameters
BEGIN { FS = "|";
       OFS = "|" }
{ while ( getline <"Data.file" > 0 )

...rest of script...

How can I run this program without having to use:

mysys: ~ $ datefix Data.file

In otherwords, just by typing the script name( without Data.file).

2)
How do I specify a range for a print statement:

print $1-$19,date,$21-$37

Right now it seems I have to have a line like:

print $1,$2,$3,$4,$5,$6,$7,$8,$9,$10,$11,$12,$13,$14...goes on and on till
I wanna scream!

I am sorry if these are obvious questions or FAQ's, but nothing about them
appears in the O'Rielly book, or anywhere else.  I guess the creaters of
nawk expect you to write filters like:

mysys: ~ $ datefix -F\| -f20 < Data.file > Data.file.fixed

but I want to do it my way.
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