GAWKBUG(1)

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🎀 NAME 🎀

gawkbug — report a bug in gawk 🐛✨

💅 SYNOPSIS 💅

gawkbug [--version] [--help] [email-address]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so gawkbug is a shell script that helps you write up and mail a bug report about gawk in a standard format, so nothing gets lost in translation 🫶 it's giving organized.

Here's the vibe: gawkbug opens the editor set in the EDITOR environment variable on a temporary copy of the bug report outline. You fill in the right fields, then exit the editor. After that, gawkbug mails your finished report to bug-gawk@gnu.org, or to email-address if you give one 💌 If the mail fails to send, your report gets saved in the file dead.gawkbug in your home directory 😭 so don't panic, it's not gone.

The outline has a few sections. Section one is info about your machine, operating system, the gawk version, and your compilation environment 🖥️ Section two is where you describe the bug. Section three is for how to reproduce it, which is lowkey the most important part 🔍 Section four is optional, and it's for a proposed fix. Fixes are encouraged, bestie 🌸✨

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

gawkbug will check these environment variables if they exist:

  • EDITOR — the editor you prefer 💖 If EDITOR isn't set, gawkbug goes hunting for other editors, including vim, and then emacs if it has to 🧚 If it can't find any of those, it tries to run vi as a last resort.
  • HOME — the directory where your failed bug report gets saved if the mail fails 🏠
  • TMPDIR — the directory where temporary files and directories get created 📁

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

gawk(1) 💜

👑 AUTHORS 👑

  • Brian Fox, Free Software Foundation — bfox@gnu.org 🌟
  • Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University — chet@po.cwru.edu 💅
  • Arnold Robbins — bug-gawk@gnu.org 🍓

That's the whole tea, bestie! 🫶 This page is from GNU Awk 5.3, dated 2023 October 18, and it lives in the GAWKBUG(1) manual. Go write that bug report and slay it 💖✨

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