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authorWarner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>2021-07-31 05:19:58 +0000
committerWarner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>2021-07-31 05:33:37 +0000
commit4e52f5db352fe54d6ba342bcde01228096db8b19 (patch)
tree1c1176075fccba5d13741c5a87e3167745518f62 /usr.bin/awk
parent97c0b5ab18b6131ab11ed03b38d5e239fc811a3e (diff)
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diff --git a/usr.bin/awk/awk.1 b/usr.bin/awk/awk.1
index b85efe9d87cd..20bb510a1516 100644
--- a/usr.bin/awk/awk.1
+++ b/usr.bin/awk/awk.1
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
.\" THIS SOFTWARE.
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
-.Dd $Mdocdate: June 6 2020 $
+.Dd July 30, 2021
.Dt AWK 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -812,3 +812,11 @@ to it.
.Pp
The scope rules for variables in functions are a botch;
the syntax is worse.
+.Sh DEPRECATED BEHAVIOR
+One True Awk has accpeted
+.Fl Ft
+to mean the same as
+.Fl F\t
+to make it easier to specify tabs as the separator character.
+Upstream One True Awk has deprecated this wart in the name of better
+compatibility with other awk implementations like gawk and mawk.