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

[Gordon Ross]

I also saw mention that MacOSX passed POSIX tests.  Anyone know?
If so, is this GNU awk example anything one should care about?

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Paul Armstrong <illumos at otoh.org> wrote:
> At 2011-04-05T19:56+0200, Guido Berhoerster wrote:
>> * Gordon Ross <gordon.w.ross at gmail.com> [2011-04-05 19:35]:
>> > Anyone in a position to try this on a recent MacOS?
>> > (They reportedly have a more recent version of what we call nawk)
>>
>> That seems to be an older version of one-true-awk from 2007
>> (imported from FreeBSD?), FreeBSD STABLE has a more current
>> version from 2009 (although that's not the most current either).
>
> Indeed
>
> MacBook-Pro:~ psa$ awk --version
> awk version 20070501
>