On 2/10/09 6:50 PM, "John Summerfield"
wrote:
> The same description also says, "mawk is a new awk."
Mawk omits some of the classic awk syntax "features", most of which are
better off gone, but you may find some differences with really ancient awk
scripts (or awk programmers).
Tim Pinkawa wrote:
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:12 PM, John Summerfield
wrote:
and then Debian uses mawk which "is smaller and much faster than gawk."
Interestingly, nawk is symlinked to mawk by default on Debian-based systems.
The same description also says, "mawk is a new awk."
$ readlink
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:12 PM, John Summerfield
wrote:
> and then Debian uses mawk which "is smaller and much faster than gawk."
Interestingly, nawk is symlinked to mawk by default on Debian-based systems.
$ readlink /usr/bin/nawk
/etc/alternatives/nawk
$ readlink /etc/alternatives/nawk
/usr/b
David Boyes wrote:
Gawk should be functionally compatible with nawk.
Awk was in version 7 Unix -- it's a K&P thing, I think. Nawk appeared with
System V from ATT-land. Gawk is the GNU tooling and combines most of the
function of both (It's a superset of both awk and nawk).
and then Debian use
Gawk should be functionally compatible with nawk.
Awk was in version 7 Unix -- it's a K&P thing, I think. Nawk appeared with
System V from ATT-land. Gawk is the GNU tooling and combines most of the
function of both (It's a superset of both awk and nawk).
On 2/10/09 2:39 PM, "Smith, Ann (ISD, IT)
On Feb 10, 2009, at 1:58 PM, Andrej wrote:
2009/2/11 Smith, Ann (ISD, IT) :
We have customers in the process of porting an application from
Solaris
to SLES10 on zseries.
They have a korn shell script which includes the following:
export DOMAIN_NAME=`echo $1 | nawk '{print tolower($1)}'`
The c
2009/2/11 Smith, Ann (ISD, IT) :
> We have customers in the process of porting an application from Solaris
> to SLES10 on zseries.
> They have a korn shell script which includes the following:
> export DOMAIN_NAME=`echo $1 | nawk '{print tolower($1)}'`
The command is tolower is supported by gawk -
On Feb 10, 2009, at 1:39 PM, Smith, Ann (ISD, IT) wrote:
We have customers in the process of porting an application from
Solaris
to SLES10 on zseries.
They have a korn shell script which includes the following:
export DOMAIN_NAME=`echo $1 | nawk '{print tolower($1)}'`
Is there a 'nawk' for linu
We have customers in the process of porting an application from Solaris
to SLES10 on zseries.
They have a korn shell script which includes the following:
export DOMAIN_NAME=`echo $1 | nawk '{print tolower($1)}'`
Is there a 'nawk' for linux ?
I see that nawk means 'new awk' but I am not familiar wi
