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


From: Ed Morton
Subject: [bug-gawk] mention how to specify file names containing = in the doc
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2019 14:11:20 -0500
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Documentation enhancement request:

Someone recently asked me how to pass a file name containing an `=` sign (e.g. a file named `count=1`) as the input file name argument to awk. They had tried this which of course fails:

    awk 'script' count=1

and I glibly told them it was well documented that you should do it as:

    awk 'script' ./count=1

Then I tried to find the documentation to provide a reference for that and I couldn't.

The gawk manual in https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html#Other-Arguments tells us that `count=1` on it's own would be taken  as a variable assignment and then https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html#Assignment-Options confirms that fact but I couldn't find anywhere that tells us how to solve the issue by just sticking `./` in front of the file name.

Maybe we could get that stated somewhere in the manual?

    Ed.



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