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Date:	Sun, 15 Aug 2004 11:35:17 -0700
From:	Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna AT efn DOT org>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: igawk problem
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On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 11:30:49PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> This looks like an upstream igawk portability bug -- the lines
> 
> 	processed_program=`gawk -- "$expand_prog" /dev/stdin <<EOF
> 	$program
> 	EOF
> 
> look like the culprit.  They should be using xargs instead...

Not true.  Running an awk program several times on a subsets of the
files, as xargs may do, isn't necessarily going to have the same
effect as running it once on all the files.

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