[illumos-Developer] awk, nawk, oawk, ...

[Roland Mainz]

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Gordon Ross <gordon.w.ross at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've just run into another (porting) case where "awk" just won't do,
> and wish "awk" pointed to "nawk" and "awk" would either go away or
> become "oawk" or something.
> Does anything stand in the way of our making "nawk" the new "awk"?

Erm... if you do please move /usr/xpg4/bin/awk to /usr/bin/awk and
_not_ the nawk codebase (the idea is to get a fully POSIX-conformant
"awk" implementation as /usr/bin/awk. nawk is close but not perfect
and AFAIK all nawk-specific scripts should run with the current
/usr/xpg4/bin/awk (Olga Kryzhanovska could explain the differences but
she's not back again)).

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Bye,
Roland

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