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?

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