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+# nextfile --- skip remaining records in current file
+# correctly handle successive occurrences of the same file
+# Arnold Robbins, arnold@gnu.ai.mit.edu, Public Domain
+# May, 1993
+
+# this should be read in before the "main" awk program
+
+function nextfile()   { _abandon_ = FILENAME; next }
+
+_abandon_ == FILENAME {
+      if (FNR == 1)
+          _abandon_ = ""
+      else
+          next
+}