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From: qwx@sciops.net
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] [PATCH] awk(1): quote argument for -v option
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2022 14:47:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <F291C5D9B6F7EBD8F49F2D554C83B601@wopr.sciops.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y4X2srVryGMhBXDR@x1.home>

On Tue Nov 29 13:11:23 +0100 2022, anders@adamsgaard.dk wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> Running awk from rc, I found that I need to quote the arguments to awk's
> -v option, as in:
> 
> 	awk -v 'myvar=asdf' 'BEGIN{print myvar}'
> 
> However, the awk man page specifies this without quotes as "awk -v
> myvar=asdf".  I now realize that it will not work without quotes because
> rc tries to interpret the assignment operator.
> 
> Is this just a beginner mistake, being used to unix behavior, or worth
> documenting as in the patch below?
> 
> Thanks, Anders

Hi,

awk(1)'s manpage seems mostly unchanged from unix.  I'm not sure it
makes sense to add quotes there since it's an rc specificity, not awk.
Perhaps a sentence could be added in the BUGS section?  Just my 2c.

Thanks!
qwx

  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-29 13:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-29 12:10 Anders Damsgaard
2022-11-29 13:47 ` qwx [this message]
2022-11-29 14:52 ` Stanley Lieber
2022-11-29 15:14 ` Kurt H Maier
2022-11-29 15:22   ` Stanley Lieber
2022-11-29 16:24   ` Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir
2022-11-29 16:28     ` Jacob Moody
2022-11-29 16:43       ` Kurt H Maier
2022-11-29 19:06         ` Stanley Lieber
2022-11-29 19:52           ` Stanley Lieber

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