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diff --git a/doc/gawk.texi b/doc/gawk.texi index 328c1782..1d3793eb 100644 --- a/doc/gawk.texi +++ b/doc/gawk.texi @@ -3824,7 +3824,8 @@ names like @code{i}, @code{j}, etc.) @cindex @command{awk} debugging, enabling Enable debugging of @command{awk} programs (@pxref{Debugging}). -By default, the debugger reads commands interactively from the keyboard. +By default, the debugger reads commands interactively from the keyboard +(standard input). The optional @var{file} argument allows you to specify a file with a list of commands for the debugger to execute non-interactively. No space is allowed between the @option{-D} and @var{file}, if @@ -40025,6 +40026,11 @@ originally written by Steven R.@: Bourne at Bell Laboratories. Many shells (Bash, @command{ksh}, @command{pdksh}, @command{zsh}) are generally upwardly compatible with the Bourne shell. +@item Braces +The characters @samp{@{} and @samp{@}}. Braces are used in +@command{awk} for delimiting actions, compound statements, and function +bodies. + @item Built-in Function The @command{awk} language provides built-in functions that perform various numerical, I/O-related, and string computations. Examples are @@ -40070,11 +40076,6 @@ are the variables that have special meaning to @command{gawk}. Changing some of them affects @command{awk}'s running environment. (@xref{Built-in Variables}.) -@item Braces -The characters @samp{@{} and @samp{@}}. Braces are used in -@command{awk} for delimiting actions, compound statements, and function -bodies. - @item C The system programming language that most GNU software is written in. The @command{awk} programming language has C-like syntax, and this @value{DOCUMENT} |