Re: Command line assistance for awk functions

[alex xmb ratchev]

mate , the what i did on irc one line chat
ppl asked , i coded
also reparsing help ( shell ) was
same for longer manual pages , those however werent in shbot

u may want to parse the manual into sections which awkhelp can then access

.. thers only man and such , no else
so the answer ..

On Wed, Mar 8, 2023, 5:31 PM goncholden <goncholden@protonmail.com> wrote:

> ------- Original Message -------
> 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 i guess thats how it is ( outdated , intended )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
> >
> >
> >
>