awk manual is outdated

[Mateusz Piotrowski]

On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 01:06:19 +0200
Samy Mahmoudi <samy.mahmoudi at gmail.com> wrote:

>The awk manual seems out of date.
>
>For example, the -V option is documented but is unknown at execution.
>Reciprocally, --version is not documented but is functional at execution.
>Under FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT, the date at the end of the manual also seems
>older than expected, as the FreeBSD Manual Pages indicates a newer date for
>FreeBSD 11.2.
>
>I could edit awk.1 and copy/paste a patch to solve these but reviewing the
>whole manual may be better to eradicate other omissions. From the FreeBSD
>Manual Pages, I have found out that options (including -V) were introduced
>between 11.0 RELEASE and 11.1 RELEASE.
>
>By the way, choosing the "FreeBSD 12-current" manual on that web page
><https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=awk&apropos=0&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+12-current&arch=default&format=html>
>actually gives the "FreeBSD 11.2" manual, seemingly.

I've created an issue on Bugzilla for this. Thanks for the heads up.

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=230730