awk -f - in Ultrix 4.0
George Robbins
grr at cbmvax.commodore.com
Wed Mar 27 04:59:32 AEST 1991
In article <2182 at riscy.enet.dec.com> frank at croton.nyo.dec.com (Frank Wortner) writes:
> In article <20082 at cbmvax.commodore.com>, grr at cbmvax.commodore.com
> (George Robbins) writes:
>
> > It is also mildly amusing to note that nawk doesn't support "-f -"
>
> ... but the ULTRIX nawk man page explicitly says that it does:
>
> "There are two ways to specify the nawk program:
>
> (a) ...
>
> (b) By using the -f programfile option (where programfile con-
> tains the nawk program). More than one -f option can appear
> on the command line. The program will consist of the con-
> catenation of the contents of all the specified program-
> files. You can use - in place of a file name, to obtain
> input from the standard input."
Which version of Ultrix adopts nawk? My info pertained to the standard
AT&T version (SVR3.2 I think) that I tried to port to Ultrix... The Ultrix
man page doesn't seem to match that or the SVr4 man page, which is still
ambiguous as to wheter the - applies to the -f, or just "input".
Does the "-f -" really work, or did some Ultrix person attempt to clarify
the man page and succeed in telling a lie. 8-)
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