From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:17:16 +0200 Message-ID: From: Rudolf Sykora To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: [9fans] a few man pages deficiencies Topicbox-Message-UUID: d03ccd0a-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hello, for the record... it seems that -- awk man page does not list the substr(s,m) function (... version without explicit length) -- awk man page does not mention the possible use of '&' in (g)sub() functions -- sed man page mentions the use of '&' only in examples -- sed man page does not mention backreferences (like \1) at all Ruda