[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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