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Re: igawk problem
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 11:30:49PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> This looks like an upstream igawk portability bug -- the lines
>
> processed_program=`gawk -- "$expand_prog" /dev/stdin <<EOF
> $program
> EOF
>
> look like the culprit. They should be using xargs instead...
Not true. Running an awk program several times on a subsets of the
files, as xargs may do, isn't necessarily going to have the same
effect as running it once on all the files.
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