revoutput - Reverse output strings sample extension
@load "revoutput" BEGIN { REVOUT = 1 } # Reverse all output strings
REVOUTPUT(3) GNU Awk Extension Modules REVOUTPUT(3) NAME revoutput - Reverse output strings sample extension SYNOPSIS @load "revoutput" BEGIN { REVOUT = 1 } # Reverse all output strings DESCRIPTION The revoutput extension adds a simple output wrapper that reverses the characters in each output line. It's main purpose is to show how to write an output wrapper, although it may be mildly amusing for the unwary. EXAMPLE @load "revoutput" BEGIN { REVOUT = 1 print "hello, world" > "/dev/stdout" } The output from this program is: dlrow ,olleh BUGS This extension does not affect the default standard output. ATTRIBUTES See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes: +---------------+------------------+ |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +---------------+------------------+ |Availability | text/gawk | +---------------+------------------+ |Stability | Volatile | +---------------+------------------+ SEE ALSO GAWK: Effective AWK Programming, filefuncs(3), fnmatch(3), fork(3), inplace(3), ordchr(3), readdir(3), readfile(3), rwarray(3), time(3). AUTHOR Arnold Robbins, arnold@skeeve.com. COPYING PERMISSIONS Copyright (C) 2012, 2013, 2018, Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual page provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual page under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one. Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this man- ual page into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions, except that this permission notice may be stated in a trans- lation approved by the Foundation. NOTES Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source- code-downloads.html. This software was built from source available at https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community source was downloaded from https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk/gawk-5.1.1.tar.xz. Further information about this software can be found on the open source community website at https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk. Free Software Foundation Feb 21 2018 REVOUTPUT(3)