[PLUG] awk vs. gawk

Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com
Fri Nov 18 17:28:52 UTC 2016


On Fri, 18 Nov 2016, Rich Shepard wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Nov 2016, Paul Heinlein wrote:
>
>> Are they separate binaries, or are they hard-linked (rather than 
>> symlinked)?
>
> Paul,
>
>   Appear to be separate binaries:
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Mar  9  2014 /usr/bin/awk -> ../../bin/awk*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Mar  9  2014 /usr/bin/gawk -> ../../bin/gawk*

What does "ls -l /bin/*awk" give you?

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