Allan Black wrote: > Kern Sibbald wrote: >> I suspect that awk would be much more portable on Unix systems. > > Yes, but not necessarily the same version of awk, unfortunately. > GNU/Linux tends to have new awk, whereas other, particularly > commercial versions of UNIX (e.g. Solaris) retain the old awk, > because replacing it would break customer scripts (or 3rd party > software). > > I frequently have to edit scripts or Makefiles developed on Linux, > and replace "awk" with "nawk" to make them work on Solaris.
awk -> nawk should be OK. That's just a one line change. We will test this on our supported systems to be sure it works. -- Dan Langille - http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference: http://www.bsdcan.org/ PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference: http://www.pgcon.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
