[uClibc]Re: Awk poetry ;) [was: awk replacement for initfini.pl]

Jim Treadway jim at stardot-tech.com
Tue Oct 15 02:47:31 UTC 2002


On 15 Oct 2002, Miles Bader wrote:

> Christian MICHON <christian_michon at yahoo.fr> writes:
> > = save as initfini.awk ============
> > = cut here ========================
> > #! /usr/bin/awk -f
> 
> Note that for historical reasons, it's often preferable to use
> `/usr/bin/nawk' instead (some systems, notably those from sun, keep
> horrible braindead not-used-since-1982 versions of awk in /usr/bin/awk;
> most modern systems just have awk and nawk pointing at the same program).

Note that Red Hat 7.2 and Red Hat 7.3 systems don't seem to have
/usr/bin/nawk (or /usr/bin/nawk for that matter).

	/bin/awk -> gawk
	/bin/gawk
	/usr/bin/awk -> ../../bin/gawk
	/usr/bin/gawk -> ../../bin/gawk

Jim





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