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)" <[email protected]> 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 linux ? > I see that nawk means 'new awk' but I am not familiar with the history > of awk, nawk, gawk. > Is there any compatible command for SLES10? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
