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NAME
       gawkbug - report a bug in gawk

SYNOPSIS
       gawkbug [--version] [--help] [email-address]

DESCRIPTION
       gawkbug  is a shell script to help the user compose and mail bug reports concerning gawk in a
       standard format.  gawkbug invokes the editor specified by the environment variable EDITOR  on
       a  temporary  copy  of  the  bug report format outline. The user must fill in the appropriate
       fields and exit the editor.  gawkbug then mails the completed report to bug-gawk AT gnu.org,  or
       email-address.   If  the report cannot be mailed, it is saved in the file dead.gawkbug in the
       invoking user's home directory.

       The bug report format outline consists of several sections.  The first section  provides  in‐
       formation about the machine, operating system, the gawk version, and the compilation environ‐
       ment.   The second section should be filled in with a description of the bug.  The third sec‐
       tion should be a description of how to reproduce the bug.  The optional fourth section is for
       a proposed fix.  Fixes are encouraged.

ENVIRONMENT
       gawkbug will utilize the following environment variables if they exist:

       EDITOR Specifies the preferred editor. If EDITOR is not set, gawkbug  attempts  to  locate  a
              number  of alternative editors, including vim, and if it must, emacs.  If gawkbug can‐
              not locate any of the alternative editors, it attempts to execute vi.

       HOME   Directory in which the failed bug report is saved if the mail fails.

       TMPDIR Directory in which to create temporary files and directories.

SEE ALSO
       gawk(1)

AUTHORS
       Brian Fox, Free Software Foundation
       bfox AT gnu.org

       Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University
       chet AT po.edu

       Arnold Robbins
       bug-gawk AT gnu.org

GNU Awk 5.2                                  2022 Apr 18                                  GAWKBUG(1)