Package: gawk
Version: 1:3.1.4-2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
>From lines #198 to #570 the paragraphs in 'man gawk' aren't
separated, making it harder to read.
Here's an excerpt, with line numbers:
% man gawk | grep -A 20 -B 6 -n "options are flagged as invalid"
192- dards, these options cause an immediate, successful exit.)
193-
194- -- Signal the end of options. This is useful to allow further
argu-
195- ments to the AWK program itself to start with a "-". This
is
196- mainly for consistency with the argument parsing convention
used
197- by most other POSIX programs.
198: In compatibility mode, any other options are flagged as invalid,
but
199- are otherwise ignored. In normal operation, as long as program
text
200- has been supplied, unknown options are passed on to the AWK program
in
201- the ARGV array for processing. This is particularly useful for
running
202- AWK programs via the "#!" executable interpreter mechanism.
203-AWK PROGRAM EXECUTION
204- An AWK program consists of a sequence of pattern-action statements
and
205- optional function definitions.
206- pattern { action statements }
207- function name(parameter list) { statements }
208- Gawk first reads the program source from the program-file(s) if
speci-
209- fied, from arguments to --source, or from the first non-option
argument
210- on the command line. The -f and --source options may be used
multiple
211- times on the command line. Gawk reads the program text as if all
the
212- program-files and command line source texts had been
concatenated
213- together. This is useful for building libraries of AWK
functions,
214- without having to include them in each new AWK program that uses
them.
215- It also provides the ability to mix library functions with command
line
216- programs.
217- The environment variable AWKPATH specifies a search path to use
when
218- finding source files named with the -f option. If this variable
does
I experimented and came up with a short patch, which is attached. Apparently
the
problem was that this:
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...should have been:
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Hope this helps...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Versions of packages gawk depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
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