In a private email, Philip Guenther has observed that awk does not
completely folow the POSIX option guidelines. [-safe] is not
[-s,-a,-f,-e] but a single option!
The right patch is then:
--- main.c.orig Mon Jan 29 15:01:20 2007
+++ main.c Mon Jan 29 15:52:47 2007
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
cmdname = __progname;
if (argc == 1) {
fprintf(stderr, "usage: %s [-safe] [-V] [-d[n]] [-F fs] "
- "[-v var=value] [prog | -f progfile]\n\tfile ...\n",
+ "[-v var=value] [prog | -f progfile]\n\t file ...\n",
cmdname);
exit(1);
}
@@ -110,10 +110,6 @@
case 'v': /* -v a=1 to be done NOW. one -v for each */
if (argv[1][2] == '\0' && --argc > 1 &&
isclvar((++argv)[1]))
setclvar(argv[1]);
- break;
- case 'm': /* more memory: -mr=record, -mf=fields */
- /* no longer supported */
- WARNING("obsolete option %s ignored", argv[1]);
break;
case 'd':
dbg = atoi(&argv[1][2]);
The patch for awk.1 is obviously not required then.
I really appreciate the feedback of Philip Guenther. I was obviously
wrong.
Jason: can you, please, apply the right patch? I am sorry for the
mistake, I should have read the man page carefully... I am just not
accustomed to multicharacter options in Unix.
Igor.
