awk-family commands unified under one read-only-arg parser

gawk, mawk and nawk now share awk's argument parsing, so their file references are detected in permission checks.

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gawk, mawk, and nawk now share the same argument-extraction logic previously used only for awk, so bash permission checks now also detect file references for these awk variants.

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gawk, mawk and nawk now share awk's argument parsing, so their file references are detected in permission checks.
settingmawk
gawk, mawk and nawk now share awk's argument parsing, so their file references are detected in permission checks.
settingnawk
gawk, mawk and nawk now share awk's argument parsing, so their file references are detected in permission checks.

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