Re: Command line assistance for awk functions

[goncholden]

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On Thursday, March 9th, 2023 at 2:36 AM, 63l618u2@duck.com <63l618u2@duck.com> 
wrote:


> Here are the man pages for awk online - you can also look up things as you 
> need to do them, or you can even use openai in the terminal to write awk for 
> you :)

Very funny, but you miss the whole point.  If you do not know what to do, 
simply say
"I do not know" !
 
> https://manpages.org/awk
> 
> --
> Regards,
> Kat K
> 
> 
> Mar 8, 2023 at 09:25 by fxmbsw7_at_gmail.com_63l618u2@duck.com:
> 
> > DuckDuckGo was unable to verify sender identity
> > 
> > On Wed, Mar 8, 2023, 2:56 PM Roger rogerx.oss@gmail.com wrote:
> > 
> > > > On Wed, Mar 08, 2023 at 11:45:22AM +0000, goncholden via wrote:
> > > > It looks as if it is impossible to be able to print help documentation
> > > > for awk functions directly on the command line.
> > > > 
> > > > The only possibility is to construct a bash function that I can run on
> > > > the command line.
> > > > 
> > > > Anything I could try about this ?
> > > 
> > > Commands using -h/--help have always printed sparse priority information
> > > only,
> > > or however the author intended.
> > > 
> > > Command man (manual) files contain more detailed information. The gawk
> > > implementation documents functions within manual files.
> > 
> > i guess thats how it is ( outdated , intended )
> > i havent seen besides man much info
> 
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