Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!nrl-cmf!cmcl2!phri!marob!daveh
From: daveh@marob.MASA.COM (Dave Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: re: awk -e
Message-ID: <423@marob.MASA.COM>
Date: 27 Sep 88 14:30:02 GMT
Reply-To: daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond)
Organization: ESCC  New York City
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In article <418@marob.MASA.COM> I (somewhat assumedly) inquired about
the untimely demise of the awk `-e' option, and if anyone else had missed it.

Well, I guess this is one of those little gotchas that occur once in-a-while.
I've since discovered that there is no `-e' documented in any of the awk
manual entries, back to before I ever used Xenix.  Whatever the obscure
reason was that prompted me to stick a `-e' in the command line, I have
no clue.  Stranger still is that the damn thing worked (right up until 2.3).
I suppose since I was never challenged, I A.S.S.U.MEd `-e' was required.

"never mind" :-) :-)

Dave Hammond
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