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authoruebayasi <uebayasi@NetBSD.org>2005-08-17 00:58:19 +0000
committeruebayasi <uebayasi@NetBSD.org>2005-08-17 00:58:19 +0000
commit976fee6969614af984281bfa3fdb078ea19c4e17 (patch)
tree6527f2a094599387b0a18dc832f84f40cb205742 /usr.bin/awk/awk.1
parent55bd561796d0c4c07b56f99ab5ab4a60e2c8f4c4 (diff)
`!' needs an escape sequence (`\&'). New sentence, new line.
Reviewed By: wiz
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/awk/awk.1')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/awk/awk.134
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/awk/awk.1 b/usr.bin/awk/awk.1
index c944c924ecd..18147b162ba 100644
--- a/usr.bin/awk/awk.1
+++ b/usr.bin/awk/awk.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: awk.1,v 1.15 2004/06/06 04:04:36 wiz Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: awk.1,v 1.16 2005/08/17 00:58:19 uebayasi Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (C) Lucent Technologies 1997
.\" All Rights Reserved
@@ -91,7 +91,8 @@ Set the input field separator
to the regular expression
.Ar fs .
.It Fl mr Ar NNN , Fl mf Ar NNN
-Obsolete, no longer needed options. Set limit on maximum record or
+Obsolete, no longer needed options.
+Set limit on maximum record or
fields number.
.It Fl safe
Potentially unsafe functions such as
@@ -179,7 +180,7 @@ Exponentiation (the
form is also supported, and
.Ic **=
for the assignment operator).
-.It + - !
+.It + - \&!
Unary plus, unary minus and logical negation.
.It * / %
Multiplication, division and modulus.
@@ -200,7 +201,8 @@ Logical AND
.It Ic "||"
Logical OR
.It Ic ?:
-C conditional expression. This is used as
+C conditional expression.
+This is used as
.Ar expr1 Ic ? Ar expr2 Ic : Ar expr3 No .
If
.Ar expr1
@@ -340,12 +342,14 @@ AWK has the following mathematical and numerical functions built-in:
.It Fn atan2 x y
Returns the arctangent of
.Ar x Ic / Ar y
-in radians. See also
+in radians.
+See also
.Xr atan2 3 .
.It Fn cos expr
Computes the cosine of
.Ar expr ,
-measured in radians. See also
+measured in radians.
+See also
.Xr cos 3 .
.It Fn exp expr
Computes the exponential value of the given argument
@@ -366,7 +370,8 @@ Returns random number between 0 and 1.
.It Fn sin expr
Computes the sine of
.Ar expr ,
-measured in radians. See also
+measured in radians.
+See also
.Xr sin 3 .
.It Fn sqrt expr
Computes the non-negative square root of
@@ -401,7 +406,8 @@ Otherwise,
.Ar h
is a number indicating which match of
.Ar r
-to replace. If no
+to replace.
+If no
.Ar t
is supplied,
.Va $0
@@ -415,7 +421,8 @@ is used instead.
.\"is a digit from 1 to 9, may be used to indicate just the text that
.\"matched the
.\".Ar n Ap th
-.\"parenthesized subexpression. The sequence
+.\"parenthesized subexpression.
+.\"The sequence
.\".Ic \e0
.\"represents the entire text, as does the character
.\".Ic & .
@@ -513,7 +520,8 @@ substring of
.Ar s
starting at position
.Ar m ,
-counted from 1. If
+counted from 1.
+If
.Ar n
is omitted, the rest of
.Ar s
@@ -551,11 +559,13 @@ should be in same form as value returned by
.Fn systime .
If
.Ar timestamp
-is missing, current time is used. If
+is missing, current time is used.
+If
.Ar format
is missing, a default format equivalent to the output of
.Xr date 1
-would be used. See the specification of ANSI C
+would be used.
+See the specification of ANSI C
.Xr strftime 3
for the format conversions which are supported.
.El