Re: Command line assistance for awk functions

[Dennis Williamson]

On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 10:32 AM goncholden <goncholden@protonmail.com>
wrote:

> ------- Original Message -------
> On Thursday, March 9th, 2023 at 2:36 AM, 63l618u2@duck.com <
> 63l618u2@duck.com> wrote:
>
>
> > Here are the man pages for awk online - you can also look up things as
> you need to do them, or you can even use openai in the terminal to write
> awk for you :)
>
> Very funny, but you miss the whole point.  If you do not know what to do,
> simply say
> "I do not know" !
>
>
It wasn't clear from your original message that you wanted to document
user-written functions rather than builtin ones.

Please see
https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Getopt-Function.html
which includes a function for processing command line arguments (getopt)
written in Gawk (it may be portable to other AWKs).

You can use it to create a help dispatch function that calls various other
functions to output help, usage or other documentation. So you could have:

myprog -h myfoo

call myfoodoc to output documentation on myfoo for example.

AWK is beyond the scope of this list which covers Bash.

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