Doc on workaround for debugger -f limitation.

1 files changed, 198 insertions, 189 deletions

diff --git a/doc/gawk.info b/doc/gawk.info
index f7b93f6a..aacd68ed 100644
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+++ b/doc/gawk.info
@@ -22766,7 +22766,16 @@ some limitations.  A few that it's worth being aware of are:
      language that is used mainly for quickly executing, short programs.
 
    * The 'gawk' debugger only accepts source code supplied with the '-f'
-     option.
+     option.  If you have a shell script that provides an 'awk' program
+     as a command line parameter, and you need to use the debugger, you
+     can write the script to a temporary file, and use that as the
+     program, with the '-f' option.  This might look like this:
+
+          cat << \EOF > /tmp/script.$$
+          ...                                  Your program here
+          EOF
+          gawk -D -f /tmp/script.$$
+          rm /tmp/script.$$
 
 
 File: gawk.info,  Node: Debugging Summary,  Prev: Limitations,  Up: Debugger
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