ignoring the fact that i can pass in variables to gawk using the '-v' option,
i'm wondering if this is a bug in how bash expands variables to pass to
programs ... i couldnt pick out anything under EXPANSION, but that's probably
just because i missed it ;)
take for example:
$ foo="a b c"
$ gawk 'BEGIN {foo="'${foo}'"}'
gawk: BEGIN {foo="a
gawk: ^ unterminated string
this being because bash executed:
argv[0] = gawk
argv[1] = BEGIN {foo="a
argv[2] = b
argv[3] = c"}
when really i wanted:
argv[0] = gawk
argv[1] = BEGIN {foo="a b c"}
so if i quote ${foo} like so:
$ gawk 'BEGIN {foo="'"${foo}"'"}'
it'll work in this case, but then fail if foo contains newlines:
foo="a
b
c"
-mike
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