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Re: a question about gawk
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fabrice bauzac |
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Re: a question about gawk |
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Sat, 2 Mar 2002 16:13:50 +0100 |
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On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 08:38:58AM -0800, Finn Magnusson wrote:
> I have written an interactive gawk script that reads commands from
> standard input. I wonder if it is possible to move the cursor left
> and right in order to edit the input line. When I use the arrow
> keys, all I get is ^[[D and ^[[C.
AFAIK, gawk doesn't support interactive line editing at the moment.
Maybe you want to use the GNU Readline library, which Bash uses?
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fabrice bauzac
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