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

[Garrett D'Amore]

  On 04/ 5/11 11:13 AM, Gordon Ross wrote:
> I also saw mention that MacOSX passed POSIX tests.  Anyone know?
> If so, is this GNU awk example anything one should care about?

I don't care about GNU awk.

I do care about passing POSIX tests.  I also care about breaking the 
installed base of scripts.

I don't care about esoteric edge cases that are not part of a standard 
and are not part of the typical use in scripts.

     - Garrett

> 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
>>
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