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Re: Command line assistance for awk functions
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goncholden |
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Re: Command line assistance for awk functions |
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Wed, 08 Mar 2023 18:33:45 +0000 |
------- Original Message -------
On Thursday, March 9th, 2023 at 5:00 AM, Dennis Williamson
<dennistwilliamson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 10:32 AM goncholden <goncholden@protonmail.com> wrote:
>
>> ------- Original Message -------
>> On Thursday, March 9th, 2023 at 2:36 AM, 63l618u2@duck.com
>> <63l618u2@duck.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Here are the man pages for awk online - you can also look up things as you
>>> need to do them, or you can even use openai in the terminal to write awk
>>> for you :)
>>
>> Very funny, but you miss the whole point. If you do not know what to do,
>> simply say
>> "I do not know" !
>
> It wasn't clear from your original message that you wanted to document
> user-written functions rather than builtin ones.
From the replies, it was surely unclear.
> Please see
> https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Getopt-Function.html which
> includes a function for processing command line arguments (getopt) written in
> Gawk (it may be portable to other AWKs).
I shall check that out for sure.
> You can use it to create a help dispatch function that calls various other
> functions to output help, usage or other documentation. So you could have:
>
> myprog -h myfoo
>
> call myfoodoc to output documentation on myfoo for example.
>
> AWK is beyond the scope of this list which covers Bash.
>
> --
>
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Re: Command line assistance for awk functions, Greg Wooledge, 2023/03/08