How to run a .awk file?

The file you give is a shell script, not an awk program. So, try sh my.awk.

If you want to use awk -f my.awk life.csv > life_out.cs, then remove awk -F , ' and the last line from the file and add FS="," in BEGIN.

If you put #!/bin/awk -f on the first line of your AWK script it is easier. Plus editors like Vim and ... will recognize the file as an AWK script and you can colorize. :)

#!/bin/awk -f
BEGIN {}  # Begin section
{}        # Loop section
END{}     # End section

Change the file to be executable by running:

chmod ugo+x ./awk-script

and you can then call your AWK script like this:

`$ echo "something" | ./awk-script`