igawk problem

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:

> 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.

Ah, but I wasn't suggesting that.  I was thinking of using xargs to invoke 
gawk with one long argument, instead of passing it on the command line...  
However, now that I think of it, that's probably no different than running 
it from the shell...  Oh, well...  I guess Hans's solution with mktemp is 
the best under the circumstances.
	Igor
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