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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: awk -f - in Ultrix 4.0
Message-ID: <20134@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 26 Mar 91 18:59:32 GMT
References: <20082@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1991Mar20.171431.13307@math.ucla.edu> <4678@osc.COM> <2182@riscy.enet.dec.com>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <2182@riscy.enet.dec.com> frank@croton.nyo.dec.com (Frank Wortner) writes:
> In article <20082@cbmvax.commodore.com>, grr@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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