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| author | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2021-11-22 21:57:42 +0200 |
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| committer | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2021-11-22 21:57:42 +0200 |
| commit | f44bcf14b40716abe45306b0ca427a2b8359f28f (patch) | |
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diff --git a/doc/gawktexi.in b/doc/gawktexi.in index 35a6deb2..0e621e04 100644 --- a/doc/gawktexi.in +++ b/doc/gawktexi.in @@ -22879,9 +22879,11 @@ 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 |