From owner-svn-src-head@freebsd.org Thu Mar 9 03:27:54 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-head@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9E95CD4831; Thu, 9 Mar 2017 03:27:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bapt@FreeBSD.org) Received: from repo.freebsd.org (repo.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:6068::e6a:0]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 821BE14C7; Thu, 9 Mar 2017 03:27:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bapt@FreeBSD.org) Received: from repo.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.37]) by repo.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id v293RrY6016499; Thu, 9 Mar 2017 03:27:53 GMT (envelope-from bapt@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from bapt@localhost) by repo.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id v293RrEY016498; Thu, 9 Mar 2017 03:27:53 GMT (envelope-from bapt@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <201703090327.v293RrEY016498@repo.freebsd.org> X-Authentication-Warning: repo.freebsd.org: bapt set sender to bapt@FreeBSD.org using -f From: Baptiste Daroussin Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 03:27:53 +0000 (UTC) To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r314942 - head/usr.bin/awk X-SVN-Group: head MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the src tree for head/-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2017 03:27:54 -0000 Author: bapt Date: Thu Mar 9 03:27:53 2017 New Revision: 314942 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/314942 Log: Import the awk(1) manpage from OpenBSD As discussed during AsiaBSDcon devsummit, import the manpage from OpenBSD which is has been rewritten in mdoc(7) format making it readable by default with mandoc, it also has been extended by OpenBSD to cover all awk(1) options Obtained from: OpenBSD MFH: 1 week Added: head/usr.bin/awk/awk.1 (contents, props changed) Added: head/usr.bin/awk/awk.1 ============================================================================== --- /dev/null 00:00:00 1970 (empty, because file is newly added) +++ head/usr.bin/awk/awk.1 Thu Mar 9 03:27:53 2017 (r314942) @@ -0,0 +1,794 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: awk.1,v 1.44 2015/09/14 20:06:58 schwarze Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (C) Lucent Technologies 1997 +.\" All Rights Reserved +.\" +.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and +.\" its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby +.\" granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all +.\" copies and that both that the copyright notice and this +.\" permission notice and warranty disclaimer appear in supporting +.\" documentation, and that the name Lucent Technologies or any of +.\" its entities not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining +.\" to distribution of the software without specific, written prior +.\" permission. +.\" +.\" LUCENT DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, +.\" INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. +.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL LUCENT OR ANY OF ITS ENTITIES BE LIABLE FOR ANY +.\" SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES +.\" WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER +.\" IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, +.\" ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF +.\" THIS SOFTWARE. +.\" +.\" $FreeBSD$ +.Dd $Mdocdate: September 14 2015 $ +.Dt AWK 1 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm awk +.Nd pattern-directed scanning and processing language +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm awk +.Op Fl safe +.Op Fl V +.Op Fl d Ns Op Ar n +.Op Fl F Ar fs +.Op Fl v Ar var Ns = Ns Ar value +.Op Ar prog | Fl f Ar progfile +.Ar +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Nm +scans each input +.Ar file +for lines that match any of a set of patterns specified literally in +.Ar prog +or in one or more files specified as +.Fl f Ar progfile . +With each pattern there can be an associated action that will be performed +when a line of a +.Ar file +matches the pattern. +Each line is matched against the +pattern portion of every pattern-action statement; +the associated action is performed for each matched pattern. +The file name +.Sq - +means the standard input. +Any +.Ar file +of the form +.Ar var Ns = Ns Ar value +is treated as an assignment, not a filename, +and is executed at the time it would have been opened if it were a filename. +.Pp +The options are as follows: +.Bl -tag -width "-safe " +.It Fl d Ns Op Ar n +Debug mode. +Set debug level to +.Ar n , +or 1 if +.Ar n +is not specified. +A value greater than 1 causes +.Nm +to dump core on fatal errors. +.It Fl F Ar fs +Define the input field separator to be the regular expression +.Ar fs . +.It Fl f Ar progfile +Read program code from the specified file +.Ar progfile +instead of from the command line. +.It Fl safe +Disable file output +.Pf ( Ic print No > , +.Ic print No >> ) , +process creation +.Po +.Ar cmd | Ic getline , +.Ic print | , +.Ic system +.Pc +and access to the environment +.Pf ( Va ENVIRON ; +see the section on variables below). +This is a first +.Pq and not very reliable +approximation to a +.Dq safe +version of +.Nm . +.It Fl V +Print the version number of +.Nm +to standard output and exit. +.It Fl v Ar var Ns = Ns Ar value +Assign +.Ar value +to variable +.Ar var +before +.Ar prog +is executed; +any number of +.Fl v +options may be present. +.El +.Pp +The input is normally made up of input lines +.Pq records +separated by newlines, or by the value of +.Va RS . +If +.Va RS +is null, then any number of blank lines are used as the record separator, +and newlines are used as field separators +(in addition to the value of +.Va FS ) . +This is convenient when working with multi-line records. +.Pp +An input line is normally made up of fields separated by whitespace, +or by the regular expression +.Va FS . +The fields are denoted +.Va $1 , $2 , ... , +while +.Va $0 +refers to the entire line. +If +.Va FS +is null, the input line is split into one field per character. +.Pp +Normally, any number of blanks separate fields. +In order to set the field separator to a single blank, use the +.Fl F +option with a value of +.Sq [\ \&] . +If a field separator of +.Sq t +is specified, +.Nm +treats it as if +.Sq \et +had been specified and uses +.Aq TAB +as the field separator. +In order to use a literal +.Sq t +as the field separator, use the +.Fl F +option with a value of +.Sq [t] . +.Pp +A pattern-action statement has the form +.Pp +.D1 Ar pattern Ic \&{ Ar action Ic \&} +.Pp +A missing +.Ic \&{ Ar action Ic \&} +means print the line; +a missing pattern always matches. +Pattern-action statements are separated by newlines or semicolons. +.Pp +Newlines are permitted after a terminating statement or following a comma +.Pq Sq ,\& , +an open brace +.Pq Sq { , +a logical AND +.Pq Sq && , +a logical OR +.Pq Sq || , +after the +.Sq do +or +.Sq else +keywords, +or after the closing parenthesis of an +.Sq if , +.Sq for , +or +.Sq while +statement. +Additionally, a backslash +.Pq Sq \e +can be used to escape a newline between tokens. +.Pp +An action is a sequence of statements. +A statement can be one of the following: +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact +.It Ic if Ar ( expression ) Ar statement Op Ic else Ar statement +.It Ic while Ar ( expression ) Ar statement +.It Ic for Ar ( expression ; expression ; expression ) statement +.It Ic for Ar ( var Ic in Ar array ) statement +.It Ic do Ar statement Ic while Ar ( expression ) +.It Ic break +.It Ic continue +.It Xo Ic { +.Op Ar statement ... +.Ic } +.Xc +.It Xo Ar expression +.No # commonly +.Ar var No = Ar expression +.Xc +.It Xo Ic print +.Op Ar expression-list +.Op > Ns Ar expression +.Xc +.It Xo Ic printf Ar format +.Op Ar ... , expression-list +.Op > Ns Ar expression +.Xc +.It Ic return Op Ar expression +.It Xo Ic next +.No # skip remaining patterns on this input line +.Xc +.It Xo Ic nextfile +.No # skip rest of this file, open next, start at top +.Xc +.It Xo Ic delete +.Sm off +.Ar array Ic \&[ Ar expression Ic \&] +.Sm on +.No # delete an array element +.Xc +.It Xo Ic delete Ar array +.No # delete all elements of array +.Xc +.It Xo Ic exit +.Op Ar expression +.No # exit immediately; status is Ar expression +.Xc +.El +.Pp +Statements are terminated by +semicolons, newlines or right braces. +An empty +.Ar expression-list +stands for +.Ar $0 . +String constants are quoted +.Li \&"" , +with the usual C escapes recognized within +(see +.Xr printf 1 +for a complete list of these). +Expressions take on string or numeric values as appropriate, +and are built using the operators +.Ic + \- * / % ^ +.Pq exponentiation , +and concatenation +.Pq indicated by whitespace . +The operators +.Ic \&! ++ \-\- += \-= *= /= %= ^= +.Ic > >= < <= == != ?: +are also available in expressions. +Variables may be scalars, array elements +(denoted +.Li x[i] ) +or fields. +Variables are initialized to the null string. +Array subscripts may be any string, +not necessarily numeric; +this allows for a form of associative memory. +Multiple subscripts such as +.Li [i,j,k] +are permitted; the constituents are concatenated, +separated by the value of +.Va SUBSEP +.Pq see the section on variables below . +.Pp +The +.Ic print +statement prints its arguments on the standard output +(or on a file if +.Pf > Ar file +or +.Pf >> Ar file +is present or on a pipe if +.Pf |\ \& Ar cmd +is present), separated by the current output field separator, +and terminated by the output record separator. +.Ar file +and +.Ar cmd +may be literal names or parenthesized expressions; +identical string values in different statements denote +the same open file. +The +.Ic printf +statement formats its expression list according to the format +(see +.Xr printf 1 ) . +.Pp +Patterns are arbitrary Boolean combinations +(with +.Ic "\&! || &&" ) +of regular expressions and +relational expressions. +.Nm +supports extended regular expressions +.Pq EREs . +See +.Xr re_format 7 +for more information on regular expressions. +Isolated regular expressions +in a pattern apply to the entire line. +Regular expressions may also occur in +relational expressions, using the operators +.Ic ~ +and +.Ic !~ . +.Pf / Ar re Ns / +is a constant regular expression; +any string (constant or variable) may be used +as a regular expression, except in the position of an isolated regular expression +in a pattern. +.Pp +A pattern may consist of two patterns separated by a comma; +in this case, the action is performed for all lines +from an occurrence of the first pattern +through an occurrence of the second. +.Pp +A relational expression is one of the following: +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact +.It Ar expression matchop regular-expression +.It Ar expression relop expression +.It Ar expression Ic in Ar array-name +.It Xo Ic \&( Ns +.Ar expr , expr , \&... Ns Ic \&) in +.Ar array-name +.Xc +.El +.Pp +where a +.Ar relop +is any of the six relational operators in C, and a +.Ar matchop +is either +.Ic ~ +(matches) +or +.Ic !~ +(does not match). +A conditional is an arithmetic expression, +a relational expression, +or a Boolean combination +of these. +.Pp +The special patterns +.Ic BEGIN +and +.Ic END +may be used to capture control before the first input line is read +and after the last. +.Ic BEGIN +and +.Ic END +do not combine with other patterns. +.Pp +Variable names with special meanings: +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width "FILENAME " -compact +.It Va ARGC +Argument count, assignable. +.It Va ARGV +Argument array, assignable; +non-null members are taken as filenames. +.It Va CONVFMT +Conversion format when converting numbers +(default +.Qq Li %.6g ) . +.It Va ENVIRON +Array of environment variables; subscripts are names. +.It Va FILENAME +The name of the current input file. +.It Va FNR +Ordinal number of the current record in the current file. +.It Va FS +Regular expression used to separate fields; also settable +by option +.Fl F Ar fs . +.It Va NF +Number of fields in the current record. +.Va $NF +can be used to obtain the value of the last field in the current record. +.It Va NR +Ordinal number of the current record. +.It Va OFMT +Output format for numbers (default +.Qq Li %.6g ) . +.It Va OFS +Output field separator (default blank). +.It Va ORS +Output record separator (default newline). +.It Va RLENGTH +The length of the string matched by the +.Fn match +function. +.It Va RS +Input record separator (default newline). +.It Va RSTART +The starting position of the string matched by the +.Fn match +function. +.It Va SUBSEP +Separates multiple subscripts (default 034). +.El +.Sh FUNCTIONS +The awk language has a variety of built-in functions: +arithmetic, string, input/output, general, and bit-operation. +.Pp +Functions may be defined (at the position of a pattern-action statement) +thusly: +.Pp +.Dl function foo(a, b, c) { ...; return x } +.Pp +Parameters are passed by value if scalar, and by reference if array name; +functions may be called recursively. +Parameters are local to the function; all other variables are global. +Thus local variables may be created by providing excess parameters in +the function definition. +.Ss Arithmetic Functions +.Bl -tag -width "atan2(y, x)" +.It Fn atan2 y x +Return the arctangent of +.Fa y Ns / Ns Fa x +in radians. +.It Fn cos x +Return the cosine of +.Fa x , +where +.Fa x +is in radians. +.It Fn exp x +Return the exponential of +.Fa x . +.It Fn int x +Return +.Fa x +truncated to an integer value. +.It Fn log x +Return the natural logarithm of +.Fa x . +.It Fn rand +Return a random number, +.Fa n , +such that +.Sm off +.Pf 0 \*(Le Fa n No \*(Lt 1 . +.Sm on +.It Fn sin x +Return the sine of +.Fa x , +where +.Fa x +is in radians. +.It Fn sqrt x +Return the square root of +.Fa x . +.It Fn srand expr +Sets seed for +.Fn rand +to +.Fa expr +and returns the previous seed. +If +.Fa expr +is omitted, the time of day is used instead. +.El +.Ss String Functions +.Bl -tag -width "split(s, a, fs)" +.It Fn gsub r t s +The same as +.Fn sub +except that all occurrences of the regular expression are replaced. +.Fn gsub +returns the number of replacements. +.It Fn index s t +The position in +.Fa s +where the string +.Fa t +occurs, or 0 if it does not. +.It Fn length s +The length of +.Fa s +taken as a string, +or of +.Va $0 +if no argument is given. +.It Fn match s r +The position in +.Fa s +where the regular expression +.Fa r +occurs, or 0 if it does not. +The variable +.Va RSTART +is set to the starting position of the matched string +.Pq which is the same as the returned value +or zero if no match is found. +The variable +.Va RLENGTH +is set to the length of the matched string, +or \-1 if no match is found. +.It Fn split s a fs +Splits the string +.Fa s +into array elements +.Va a[1] , a[2] , ... , a[n] +and returns +.Va n . +The separation is done with the regular expression +.Ar fs +or with the field separator +.Va FS +if +.Ar fs +is not given. +An empty string as field separator splits the string +into one array element per character. +.It Fn sprintf fmt expr ... +The string resulting from formatting +.Fa expr , ... +according to the +.Xr printf 1 +format +.Fa fmt . +.It Fn sub r t s +Substitutes +.Fa t +for the first occurrence of the regular expression +.Fa r +in the string +.Fa s . +If +.Fa s +is not given, +.Va $0 +is used. +An ampersand +.Pq Sq & +in +.Fa t +is replaced in string +.Fa s +with regular expression +.Fa r . +A literal ampersand can be specified by preceding it with two backslashes +.Pq Sq \e\e . +A literal backslash can be specified by preceding it with another backslash +.Pq Sq \e\e . +.Fn sub +returns the number of replacements. +.It Fn substr s m n +Return at most the +.Fa n Ns -character +substring of +.Fa s +that begins at position +.Fa m +counted from 1. +If +.Fa n +is omitted, or if +.Fa n +specifies more characters than are left in the string, +the length of the substring is limited by the length of +.Fa s . +.It Fn tolower str +Returns a copy of +.Fa str +with all upper-case characters translated to their +corresponding lower-case equivalents. +.It Fn toupper str +Returns a copy of +.Fa str +with all lower-case characters translated to their +corresponding upper-case equivalents. +.El +.Ss Input/Output and General Functions +.Bl -tag -width "getline [var] < file" +.It Fn close expr +Closes the file or pipe +.Fa expr . +.Fa expr +should match the string that was used to open the file or pipe. +.It Ar cmd | Ic getline Op Va var +Read a record of input from a stream piped from the output of +.Ar cmd . +If +.Va var +is omitted, the variables +.Va $0 +and +.Va NF +are set. +Otherwise +.Va var +is set. +If the stream is not open, it is opened. +As long as the stream remains open, subsequent calls +will read subsequent records from the stream. +The stream remains open until explicitly closed with a call to +.Fn close . +.Ic getline +returns 1 for a successful input, 0 for end of file, and \-1 for an error. +.It Fn fflush [expr] +Flushes any buffered output for the file or pipe +.Fa expr , +or all open files or pipes if +.Fa expr +is omitted. +.Fa expr +should match the string that was used to open the file or pipe. +.It Ic getline +Sets +.Va $0 +to the next input record from the current input file. +This form of +.Ic getline +sets the variables +.Va NF , +.Va NR , +and +.Va FNR . +.Ic getline +returns 1 for a successful input, 0 for end of file, and \-1 for an error. +.It Ic getline Va var +Sets +.Va $0 +to variable +.Va var . +This form of +.Ic getline +sets the variables +.Va NR +and +.Va FNR . +.Ic getline +returns 1 for a successful input, 0 for end of file, and \-1 for an error. +.It Xo +.Ic getline Op Va var +.Pf \ \&< Ar file +.Xc +Sets +.Va $0 +to the next record from +.Ar file . +If +.Va var +is omitted, the variables +.Va $0 +and +.Va NF +are set. +Otherwise +.Va var +is set. +If +.Ar file +is not open, it is opened. +As long as the stream remains open, subsequent calls will read subsequent +records from +.Ar file . +.Ar file +remains open until explicitly closed with a call to +.Fn close . +.It Fn system cmd +Executes +.Fa cmd +and returns its exit status. +.El +.Ss Bit-Operation Functions +.Bl -tag -width "lshift(a, b)" +.It Fn compl x +Returns the bitwise complement of integer argument x. +.It Fn and x y +Performs a bitwise AND on integer arguments x and y. +.It Fn or x y +Performs a bitwise OR on integer arguments x and y. +.It Fn xor x y +Performs a bitwise Exclusive-OR on integer arguments x and y. +.It Fn lshift x n +Returns integer argument x shifted by n bits to the left. +.It Fn rshift x n +Returns integer argument x shifted by n bits to the right. +.El +.Sh EXIT STATUS +.Ex -std awk +.Pp +But note that the +.Ic exit +expression can modify the exit status. +.Sh EXAMPLES +Print lines longer than 72 characters: +.Pp +.Dl length($0) > 72 +.Pp +Print first two fields in opposite order: +.Pp +.Dl { print $2, $1 } +.Pp +Same, with input fields separated by comma and/or blanks and tabs: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +BEGIN { FS = ",[ \et]*|[ \et]+" } + { print $2, $1 } +.Ed +.Pp +Add up first column, print sum and average: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +{ s += $1 } +END { print "sum is", s, " average is", s/NR } +.Ed +.Pp +Print all lines between start/stop pairs: +.Pp +.Dl /start/, /stop/ +.Pp +Simulate echo(1): +.Bd -literal -offset indent +BEGIN { # Simulate echo(1) + for (i = 1; i < ARGC; i++) printf "%s ", ARGV[i] + printf "\en" + exit } +.Ed +.Pp +Print an error message to standard error: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +{ print "error!" > "/dev/stderr" } +.Ed +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr cut 1 , +.Xr lex 1 , +.Xr printf 1 , +.Xr sed 1 , +.Xr re_format 7 , +.Xr script 7 +.Rs +.%A A. V. Aho +.%A B. W. Kernighan +.%A P. J. Weinberger +.%T The AWK Programming Language +.%I Addison-Wesley +.%D 1988 +.%O ISBN 0-201-07981-X +.Re +.Sh STANDARDS +The +.Nm +utility is compliant with the +.St -p1003.1-2008 +specification, +except +.Nm +does not support {n,m} pattern matching. +.Pp +The flags +.Op Fl \&dV +and +.Op Fl safe , +as well as the commands +.Cm fflush , compl , and , or , +.Cm xor , lshift , rshift , +are extensions to that specification. +.Sh HISTORY +An +.Nm +utility appeared in +.At v7 . +.Sh BUGS +There are no explicit conversions between numbers and strings. +To force an expression to be treated as a number add 0 to it; +to force it to be treated as a string concatenate +.Li \&"" +to it. +.Pp +The scope rules for variables in functions are a botch; +the syntax is worse.