Re: New completions for awk cut join sort - attached

[Stephane Chazelas <Stephane_Chazelas@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:55:32AM -0400, Omari Norman wrote:
[...]
> # completions for awk
> # This only aims to complete POSIX awk options, as described in
> # awk(P). Most awk implementations, such as gawk and mawk, will have
> # additional options that this does not complete. Also, currently
> # this completion does not allow everything that POSIX allows. For
> # example, awk(P) states that the user may specify assignments
> # without using the -v option; this does not support that.
> #
> # In addition, the "program text" completion is not perfect. For
> # instance, type "awk -" and then hit tab. You will be presented
> # both with the dashed options and with the "program text" option.
> # Fixing this is beyond my current _arguments expertise--help
> # appreciated.
> 
> _arguments -S -s '-F[define input field separator to be an extended regular expression]:extended regular expression:' \
>     '*-v[assign values to variables]:assignment:' \
>     '(1)-f[program file]:program file:_files' \
>     '1:program text:' \
>     '*:input files:_files'
[...]

Note that the remaining arguments of awk can also be awk
variable assignments or the special string "-" to specify stdin.

regards,
Stéphane