Can you use heredocuments to embed AWK in a bash script?

Question

Writing a shell script that pretty much wraps around an Awk script. I\'d like to have my syntax colouring on in the awk section so I feel there must be a better way to embed awk

Answer 1

Not sure what you mean, but are you looking for something like this?

#!/bin/bash

awk 'BEGIN {
    print "hello world"
}
{ 
    print $3
}' <<< "$(df)"

Have a look at 3.6.7 Here Strings in the bash manual