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diff --git a/doc/gawktexi.in b/doc/gawktexi.in index 0408d61c..6b17f5ea 100644 --- a/doc/gawktexi.in +++ b/doc/gawktexi.in @@ -30733,6 +30733,18 @@ executing, short programs. @item The @command{gawk} debugger only accepts source code supplied with the @option{-f} option. +If you have a shell script that provides an @command{awk} program as a command +line parameter, and you need to use the debugger, you can write the script +to a temporary file, and use that as the program, with the @option{-f} option. This +might look like this: + +@example +cat << \EOF > /tmp/script.$$ +@dots{} @ii{Your program here} +EOF +gawk -D -f /tmp/script.$$ +rm /tmp/script.$$ +@end example @end itemize @ignore @@ -44151,3 +44163,5 @@ Add a section explaining recursion from ground zero. Probably easiest to do it with factorial as the example. Explain that recursion needs a stopping condition. Thanks to Bill Duncan <bduncan@beachnet.org> for the suggestion. + +4/2109: Go through and check @print{} vs. @error{} in examples |