Re: man sections

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On 12/23/2014 05:19 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>
>> and just for grins, try
>> man awk... 2032 lines... and the example shows:
>
> You're complaining that awk has documentation?
oh no! that just means there are lots of options, arguements.....
complex command:)
>
>> EXAMPLES
>>       Print and sort the login names of all users:
>>            BEGIN     { FS = ":" }
>>                 { print $1 | "sort" }
>>
>> um, so, how does awk work there??
>
> That is an example awk program. I would expect to feed it the
> /etc/passwd file as input.
I would usually grep password, looking for a specific name... nice to
have a sorted list though.

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