Module Name: src
Committed By: uwe
Date: Tue Jul 5 13:05:20 UTC 2022
Modified Files:
src/external/historical/nawk/bin: awk.1
Log Message:
awk(1): mark up var=value properly
To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.13 -r1.14 src/external/historical/nawk/bin/awk.1
Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
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Modified files:
Index: src/external/historical/nawk/bin/awk.1
diff -u src/external/historical/nawk/bin/awk.1:1.13 src/external/historical/nawk/bin/awk.1:1.14
--- src/external/historical/nawk/bin/awk.1:1.13 Tue Jul 5 12:59:01 2022
+++ src/external/historical/nawk/bin/awk.1 Tue Jul 5 13:05:20 2022
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: awk.1,v 1.13 2022/07/05 12:59:01 uwe Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: awk.1,v 1.14 2022/07/05 13:05:20 uwe Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (C) Lucent Technologies 1997
.\" All Rights Reserved
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl F Ar fs
-.Op Fl v Ar var=value
+.Op Fl v Ar var\| Ns Cm \&= Ns Ar value
.Op Fl safe
.Op Fl d Ns Op Ar N
.Op Ar prog | Fl f Ar progfile
@@ -68,13 +68,13 @@ means the standard input.
Any
.Ar file
of the form
-.Ar var=value
+.Ar var\| Ns Cm \&= Ns Ar value
is treated as an assignment, not a filename,
and is executed at the time it would have been opened if it were a filename.
The option
.Fl v
followed by
-.Ar var=value
+.Ar var\| Ns Cm \&= Ns Ar value
is an assignment to be done before
.Ar prog
is executed; any number of
@@ -111,11 +111,11 @@ fields number.
Potentially unsafe functions such as
.Fn system
make the program abort (with a warning message).
-.It Fl v Ar var Ns = Ns Ar value
+.It Fl v Ar var\| Ns Cm \&= Ns Ar value
Assign the value
.Ar value
to the variable
-.Va var
+.Ar var
before
.Ar prog
is executed.
