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Known Bugs in gawk

• The -F option for changing the value of FS (see Command-Line Options) is not necessary given the command-line variable assignment feature; it remains only for backward compatibility.
• Syntactically invalid single-character programs tend to overflow the parse stack, generating a rather unhelpful message. Such programs are surprisingly difficult to diagnose in the completely general case, and the effort to do so really is not worth it.