Module Name:    src
Committed By:   uwe
Date:           Tue Jul  5 13:29:18 UTC 2022

Modified Files:
        src/external/historical/nawk/bin: awk.1

Log Message:
awk(1): document programs that only has BEGIN and/or END pattern-actions.

Copied from POSIX, except "getline" is a statement, not a function, so
call it that.


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.15 -r1.16 src/external/historical/nawk/bin/awk.1

Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
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Modified files:

Index: src/external/historical/nawk/bin/awk.1
diff -u src/external/historical/nawk/bin/awk.1:1.15 src/external/historical/nawk/bin/awk.1:1.16
--- src/external/historical/nawk/bin/awk.1:1.15	Tue Jul  5 13:21:38 2022
+++ src/external/historical/nawk/bin/awk.1	Tue Jul  5 13:29:18 2022
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$NetBSD: awk.1,v 1.15 2022/07/05 13:21:38 uwe Exp $
+.\"	$NetBSD: awk.1,v 1.16 2022/07/05 13:29:18 uwe Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (C) Lucent Technologies 1997
 .\" All Rights Reserved
@@ -634,6 +634,26 @@ and after the last.
 and
 .Ic END
 do not combine with other patterns.
+.Pp
+If an awk program consists of only actions with the pattern
+.Ic BEGIN ,
+and the
+.Ic BEGIN
+action contains no
+.Ic getline
+statement, awk shall exit without reading its input when the last
+statement in the last
+.Ic BEGIN
+action is executed.
+If an awk program consists of only actions with the pattern
+.Ic END
+or only actions with the patterns
+.Ic BEGIN
+and
+.Ic END ,
+the input shall be read before the statements in the
+.Ic END
+actions are executed.
 .Ss Built-in Variables
 Variable names with special meanings:
 .Bl -hang -width Va

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