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| author | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2021-11-22 21:58:27 +0200 |
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| committer | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2021-11-22 21:58:27 +0200 |
| commit | 8720ea146e6951e4fe074087f0251a681b77ea50 (patch) | |
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| parent | f75d149be03ada58d261e4e2c501e648e55fd66c (diff) | |
| parent | f44bcf14b40716abe45306b0ca427a2b8359f28f (diff) | |
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diff --git a/doc/gawk.texi b/doc/gawk.texi index d6ef9353..4ef3266c 100644 --- a/doc/gawk.texi +++ b/doc/gawk.texi @@ -23997,9 +23997,11 @@ As a side point, @command{gawk} actually uses the GNU @code{getopt_long()} function to process both normal and GNU-style long options (@pxref{Options}). +@cindex Minshall, Greg The abstraction provided by @code{getopt()} is very useful and is quite handy in @command{awk} programs as well. Following is an @command{awk} version of @code{getopt()} that accepts both short and long options. +(Support for long options was supplied by Greg Minshall. We thank him.) This function highlights one of the greatest weaknesses in @command{awk}, which is that it is very poor at |