Re: [bug-gawk] Feature request: IGNORECASE command-line option

[arnold]

Hello Neal

Re this: 

> Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 10:05:03 -0700
> From: "Neal B." <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [bug-gawk] Feature request: IGNORECASE command-line option
>
> Hi,
>
> This is not my only idea for new gawk features, but it is surely the
> simplest and least controversial:
>
> A command-line option for enabling IGNORECASE. (Briefer than
> -vIGNORECASE=1, I would hope.)
>
> Thanks,
> Neal Burns

Thank you for your suggestion.

Unfortunately, gawk already has too many options and features that
nobody uses.  Adding one like this means lots of additional code and
documentation, when a one-line shell script would do the trick:

        exec gawk -v IGNORECASE=1 "$@"

Thanks,

Arnold