If possible minimize clash between gawk and frawk flags

[ghuls]

If possible minimize clash between gawk and frawk flags:

❯ frawk -h
frawk 0.4
Eli R.
frawk is a pattern scanning and (semi-structured) text processing language

USAGE:
    frawk [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] [--] [ARGS]

ARGS:
    <program>           The frawk program to execute
    <input-files>...    Input files to be read by frawk program

FLAGS:
    -A, --arbitrary-shell
        --dump-bytecode      print bytecode for input program
        --dump-cfg           print untyped SSA form for input program
    -h, --help               Prints help information
    -H, --parse-header       consume the first line of input and populate the `FI` variable with
                             column names mapping to column indexes
        --utf8               validate all input as UTF-8, returning an error if it is invalid
    -V, --version            Prints version information

OPTIONS:
    -b, --backend <backend>
            The backend used to run the frawk program, ranging from fastest to compile and slowest
            to execute, and slowest to compile and fastest to execute. Cranelift is the default
            [possible values: interp, cranelift, llvm]

    -F, --field-separator <SEPARATOR>      Field separator for frawk program.
    -i, --input-format <input-format>
            Input is split according to the rules of (csv|tsv). $0 contains the unescaped line.
            Assigning to columns does nothing. [possible values: csv, tsv]

    -j <jobs>
            Number or worker threads to launch when executing in parallel, requires '-p' flag to be
            set

    -O, --opt-level <opt-level>
            the optimization level for the program. Positive levels determine the optimization level
            for LLVM. Level -1 forces bytecode interpretation [possible values: 0, 1, 2, 3]

        --out-file <FILE>                  the output file used in place of standard input
    -o, --output-format <output-format>
            If set, records output via print are escaped according to the rules of the corresponding
            format [possible values: csv, tsv]

    -p <parallel-strategy>
            Attempt to execute the script in parallel. Strategy r[ecord] parallelizes within and
            accross files. Strategy f[ile] parallelizes between input files. [possible values: r,
            record, f, file]

    -f, --program-file <FILE>              a file containing frawk program
    -v, --var <var>...                     Has the form <identifier>=<expr>

❯ ./gawk --help
Usage: gawk [POSIX or GNU style options] -f progfile [--] file ...
Usage: gawk [POSIX or GNU style options] [--] 'program' file ...
POSIX options:      GNU long options: (standard)
    -f progfile     --file=progfile
    -F fs           --field-separator=fs
    -v var=val      --assign=var=val
Short options:      GNU long options: (extensions)
    -b          --characters-as-bytes
    -c          --traditional
    -C          --copyright
    -d[file]        --dump-variables[=file]
    -D[file]        --debug[=file]
    -e 'program-text'   --source='program-text'
    -E file         --exec=file
    -g          --gen-pot
    -h          --help
    -i includefile      --include=includefile
    -l library      --load=library
    -L[fatal|invalid|no-ext]    --lint[=fatal|invalid|no-ext]
    -M          --bignum
    -N          --use-lc-numeric
    -n          --non-decimal-data
    -o[file]        --pretty-print[=file]
    -O          --optimize
    -p[file]        --profile[=file]
    -P          --posix
    -r          --re-interval
    -s          --no-optimize
    -S          --sandbox
    -t          --lint-old
    -V          --version

To report bugs, see node `Bugs' in `gawk.info'
which is section `Reporting Problems and Bugs' in the
printed version.  This same information may be found at
https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Bugs.html.
PLEASE do NOT try to report bugs by posting in comp.lang.awk,
or by using a web forum such as Stack Overflow.

gawk is a pattern scanning and processing language.
By default it reads standard input and writes standard output.

Examples:
    gawk '{ sum += $1 }; END { print sum }' file
    gawk -F: '{ print $1 }' /etc/passwd

[ezrosent]

Sorry for not responding here. I appreciate wanting to swap out gawk and frawk in scripts where the program will otherwise run the same. I'll think about a replacement for '-b', and then publish a new version when I decide on one (suggestions welcome, of course). I'll probably get around to doing this once the other "low hanging fruit" bugs filed as issues are fixed.

[ghuls]

Any update on this? -B could be used instead of -b.

[ezrosent]

Apologies! I should be able to make the substitution this weekend and post a new version.

[ezrosent]

I made the -b replacement. I can do others as well if you're running into other problems though.