[PLUG] awk vs. gawk
Tom
tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com
Sat Nov 19 01:21:24 UTC 2016
To see the real truth run these two commands:
awk -V
gawk -V
I suspect that you will get the same GNU Awk in both instances.
Tomas
On Fri, 2016-11-18 at 08:16 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
> I was curious whether awk is a soft link to gawk on my Slackware
> systems
> so I checked. They are two separate binaries. Since awk is apparently
> not
> the same as gawk, what version of awk does it represent?
>
> It's interesting that 'man awk' displays the gawk man page.
>
> A curious mind wants to know,
>
> Rich
>
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