[9front] [PATCH] awk(1): quote argument for -v option

[Anders Damsgaard <anders@adamsgaard.dk>]

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


diff ff2ebe6cfdacd890a74a6d2f9b0acd062d2633b7 uncommitted
--- a/sys/man/1/awk
+++ b/sys/man/1/awk
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
  ]
  [
  .B -v
-.I var=value
+.I 'var=value'
  ]
  [
  .B -f
@@ -58,13 +58,13 @@
  Any
  .IR file
  of the form
-.I var=value
+.I 'var=value'
  is treated as an assignment, not a file name,
  and is executed at the time it would have been opened if it were a file name.
  The option
  .B -v
  followed by
-.I var=value
+.I 'var=value'
  is an assignment to be done before the program
  is executed;
  any number of