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awk script error while running it

I have the follwing awk program:
when i run this program, it waits for user input;
when i give an input, it returns an error:
awk: cmd. line:2: (FILENAME= - FNR=1) fatal: division by zero attempted
why?

#!/bin/awk
awk '
# awkro - expand acronyms
# load acronym file into array "acro"
FILENAME == "acronyms" {
                  split($0, entry, "\t")
                  acro[entry[1]] = entry[2]
                  next}

# process any input line containing caps
/[A-Z] [A-Z]+/ {
            # see if any field is an acronym
            for (i=1; i <= NF; i++)
                  if ($i in acro)
                        { # if it matches add description
                        $i = acro[$i] " (" $i ")" }}

{ #print all lines
      print $0}' acronyms $*

ozo

That looks more like a shell program that calls awk
Either change
#!/bin/awk
to
#!/bin/sh
or remove the awk '

#!/bin/awk
# awkro - expand acronyms
# load acronym file into array "acro"
FILENAME == "acronyms" {
split($0, entry, "\t")
acro[entry[1]] = entry[2]
next}

# process any input line containing caps
/[A-Z] [A-Z]+/ {
# see if any field is an acronym
for (i=1; i <= NF; i++)
if ($i in acro)
{ # if it matches add description
$i = acro[$i] " (" $i ")" }}

{ #print all lines
print $0}

cjjclifford

If you change to "#!/bin/awk" remember to use "acronyms" as the first argument to the script (since it was embedded in the original script)

aman_greval

ASKER

Here is the acronyms file. you can use this file allong with the above code and find the result:
acronyms:
USGCRP      U.S. Global Change Research Program
NASA      National Aeronautic and Space Administration
EOS      Eatch Observing System

Sol1:
That looks more like a shell program that calls awk
Either change
#!/bin/awk
to
#!/bin/sh
or remove the awk '
Ans: I tried both but none of it worked

Sol2: If you change to "#!/bin/awk" remember to use "acronyms" as the first argument to the script (since it was embedded in the original script)
I am already supplying the argument acronyms to it, yet the error comes

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cjjclifford

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