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@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ . if \w'\(rq' .ds rq "\(rq . \} .\} -.TH GAWK 1 "Dec 17 2015" "Free Software Foundation" "Utility Commands" +.TH GAWK 1 "Jan 14 2016" "Free Software Foundation" "Utility Commands" .SH NAME gawk \- pattern scanning and processing language .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -444,11 +444,6 @@ mode, with the following additional restrictions: escape sequences are not recognized. .TP \(bu -Only space and tab act as field separators when -.B FS -is set to a single space, newline does not. -.TP -\(bu You cannot continue lines after .B ? and @@ -785,9 +780,6 @@ In the special case that .B FS is a single space, fields are separated by runs of spaces and/or tabs and/or newlines. -(But see the section -.BR "POSIX COMPATIBILITY" , -below). .BR NOTE : The value of .B IGNORECASE @@ -918,11 +910,17 @@ An array containing the values of the current environment. The array is indexed by the environment variables, each element being the value of that variable (e.g., \fBENVIRON["HOME"]\fP might be \fB"/home/arnold"\fR). -Changing this array does not affect the environment seen by programs which +.sp +In POSIX mode, +changing this array does not affect the environment seen by programs which .I gawk spawns via redirection or the .B system() function. +Otherwise, +.I gawk +updates its real environment so that programs it spawns see +the changes. .TP .B ERRNO If a system error occurs either doing a redirection for @@ -936,6 +934,15 @@ then will contain a string describing the error. The value is subject to translation in non-English locales. +If the string in +.B ERRNO +corresponds to a system error in the +.IR errno (3) +variable, then the numeric value can be found in +.B PROCINFO["errno"]. +For non-system errors, +.B PROCINFO["errno"] +will be zero. .TP .B FIELDWIDTHS A whitespace separated list of field widths. When set, @@ -1093,6 +1100,13 @@ The value of the .IR getegid (2) system call. .TP +\fBPROCINFO["errno"]\fP +The value of +.IR errno (3) +when +.BR ERRNO +is set to the associated error message. +.TP \fBPROCINFO["euid"]\fP The value of the .IR geteuid (2) @@ -1124,7 +1138,7 @@ knows about the identifiers after it has finished parsing the program; they are updated while the program runs. For each identifier, the value of the element is one of the following: .RS -.TP +.TP \w'\fB"extension"\fR'u+1n \fB"array"\fR The identifier is an array. .TP @@ -1207,6 +1221,14 @@ change .IR gawk 's behavior: .TP +\fBPROCINFO["NONFATAL"]\fR +If this exists, then I/O errors for all output redirections become nonfatal. +.TP +\fBPROCINFO["\fIoutput_command\fB", "NONFATAL"]\fR +Make output errors for +.I output_name +be nonfatal. +.TP \fBPROCINFO["\fIcommand\fB", "pty"]\fR Use a pseudo-tty for two-way communication with .I command @@ -1220,6 +1242,23 @@ where is a redirection string or a filename. A value of zero or less than zero means no timeout. .TP +\fBPROCINFO["\fIinput\^\fB", "RETRY"]\fR +If an I/O error that may be retried occurs when reading data from +.IR input , +and this array entry exists, then +.B getline +will return \-2 instead of following the default behavior of returning \-1 +and configuring +.IR input +to return no further data. +An I/O error that may be retried is one where +.IR errno (3) +has the value EAGAIN, EWOULDBLOCK, EINTR, or ETIMEDOUT. +This may be useful in conjunction with +\fBPROCINFO["\fIinput\^\fB", "READ_TIMEOUT"]\fR +or situations where a file descriptor has been configured to behave in a +non-blocking fashion. +.TP \fBPROCINFO["sorted_in"]\fP If this element exists in .BR PROCINFO , @@ -1240,7 +1279,9 @@ Supported values are \fB"@val_num_desc"\fR, and \fB"@unsorted"\fR. -The value can also be the name of any comparison function defined +The value can also be the name (as a +.IR string ) +of any comparison function defined as follows: .sp .in +5m @@ -1544,9 +1585,9 @@ Vertical tab. The character represented by the string of hexadecimal digits following the .BR \ex . -As in ISO C, all following hexadecimal digits are considered part of +Up to two +following hexadecimal digits are considered part of the escape sequence. -(This feature should tell us something about language design by committee.) E.g., \fB"\ex1B"\fR is the \s-1ASCII\s+1 \s-1ESC\s+1 (escape) character. .TP .BI \e ddd @@ -2290,6 +2331,13 @@ below.) The .B getline command returns 1 on success, 0 on end of file, and \-1 on an error. +If the +.IR errno (3) +value indicates that the I/O operation may be retried, +and \fBPROCINFO["\fIinput\^\fP", "RETRY"]\fR +is set, then \-2 will be returned instead of \-1, and further calls to +.B getline +may be attempted. Upon an error, .B ERRNO is set to a string describing the problem. @@ -2642,6 +2690,23 @@ The exponential function. .BI int( expr ) Truncate to integer. .TP +.BI intdiv( num ", " denom ", " result ) +Truncate +.I num +and +.I denom +to integers. Return the quotient of +.I num +divided by +.I denom +in \fIresult\fB["quotient"]\fR +and the remainder in +in \fIresult\fB["remainder"]\fR. +This is a +.I gawk +extension, primarily of value when working with +arbitrarily large integers. +.TP .BI log( expr ) The natural logarithm function. .TP @@ -3986,7 +4051,7 @@ We thank him. .SH COPYING PERMISSIONS Copyright \(co 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, -2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 +2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. .PP Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of |