awk -f - in Ultrix 4.0

[Frank Wortner]

In article <20134 at cbmvax.commodore.com>, grr at cbmvax.commodore.com
(George Robbins) writes:
 
> Which version of Ultrix adopts nawk? 

4.0

> Does the "-f -" really work, or did some Ultrix person attempt to clarify
> the man page and succeed in telling a lie.   8-)

Would I lie to you?  ;-)

It really works.  Here's a trivial example.  Notice that I typed the program on
standard input.

Script started on Wed Mar 27 11:50:37 1991
$ nawk -f - /etc/hosts
$1 !~ /#/ {
	print $1
}
^D127.0.0.1
16.69.128.12
16.69.128.17
16.69.128.242
16.70.192.1
16.69.128.21
$ 

script done on Wed Mar 27 11:51:09 1991