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| author | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2012-08-08 23:11:31 +0300 |
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| committer | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2012-08-08 23:11:31 +0300 |
| commit | 94008850575fe9450b52aa83b77f9b08e5e55f6e (patch) | |
| tree | 28be4cc03ab4b9cd0d4c482a83fa5d3c06b4d8dc /extension/filefuncs.3am | |
| parent | 49658bfd0ef5d4efccd210c48560c43bf455ee16 (diff) | |
| download | gawk-94008850575fe9450b52aa83b77f9b08e5e55f6e.tar.gz | |
Update extension man pages.
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1 files changed, 17 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/extension/filefuncs.3am b/extension/filefuncs.3am index 79694370..592dc070 100644 --- a/extension/filefuncs.3am +++ b/extension/filefuncs.3am @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH FILEFUNCS 3am "Jul 15 2012" "Free Software Foundation" "GNU Awk Extension Modules" +.TH FILEFUNCS 3am "Aug 08 2012" "Free Software Foundation" "GNU Awk Extension Modules" .SH NAME filefuncs \- provide some file related functionality to gawk .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ The function provides a hook to the .IR fts (3) set of routines for traversing file heirarchies. -Instead of returning data about one file at a time in a ``stream,'' +Instead of returning data about one file at a time in a stream, it fills in a multi-dimensional array with data about each file and directory encountered in the requested heirarchies. .PP @@ -295,7 +295,9 @@ The .B fts() function returns 0 if there were no errors. Otherwise it returns \-1. .SH NOTES -The AWK extension does not exactly mimic the interface of the +The AWK +.B fts() +extension does not exactly mimic the interface of the .IR fts (3) routines, choosing instead to provide an interface that is based on associative arrays, which should be more comfortable to use from @@ -306,13 +308,15 @@ already provides powerful array sorting facilities. While an interface could have been provided, this felt less natural than simply creating a multi-dimensional array to represent the file heirarchy and its information. -... .SH BUGS +.SH BUGS +There are many more file-related functions for which AWK +interfaces would be desirable. .SH EXAMPLE -.ft CW -.nf -FIXME: NEED AN EXAMPLE -.fi -.ft R +See +.B test/fts.awk +in the +.I gawk +distribution for an example. .SH "SEE ALSO" .IR "GAWK: Effective AWK Programming" , .IR fnmatch (3am), @@ -322,6 +326,10 @@ FIXME: NEED AN EXAMPLE .IR readfile (3am), .IR rwarray (3am), .IR time (3am). +.PP +.IR chdir (2), +.IR fts (3), +.IR stat (2). .SH AUTHOR Arnold Robbins, .BR arnold@skeeve.com . |