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| author | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2017-04-23 22:27:23 +0300 |
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| committer | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2017-04-23 22:27:23 +0300 |
| commit | 3a01684c2edafbcc64db1162f4b99ab6946004e2 (patch) | |
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diff --git a/doc/gawk.texi b/doc/gawk.texi index 6db3fb01..353a0c9d 100644 --- a/doc/gawk.texi +++ b/doc/gawk.texi @@ -3961,6 +3961,24 @@ This is particularly useful when you have library functions that you want to use from your command-line programs (@pxref{AWKPATH Variable}). +Note that @command{gawk} treats each string as if it ended with +a newline character (even if it doesn't). This makes building +the total program easier. + +@quotation CAUTION +At the moment, there is no requirement that each @var{program-text} +be a full syntactic unit. I.e., the following currently works: + +@example +$ @kbd{gawk -e 'BEGIN @{ a = 5 ;' -e 'print a @}'} +@print{} 5 +@end example + +@noindent +However, this could change in the future, so it's not a +good idea to rely upon this feature. +@end quotation + @item @option{-E} @var{file} @itemx @option{--exec} @var{file} @cindex @option{-E} option |