Re: [bug-gawk] mention how to specify file names containing = in the doc

[Stephane Chazelas]

2019-08-11 06:03:28 -0600, address@hidden:
[...]
> I guess you have to down grade the trick from "well documented" to
> merely "well known". :-)  It's part of the grand Oral Tradition of Unix,
> along with the similar trick of  using ./-x to cause a file that
> starts with a minus sign to not be treated as an option.
> 
> I will go ahead and add a sentence or two at an appropriate spot in
> the manual.
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion,
[...]

The

gawk -e '{gawk code here}' -E /dev/null "$file"

trick to allow arbitrary file names (includes "--help",
"dc=example,dc.com.ldif" but unfortunately not "-") may also be
worth noting.

-- 
Stephane