Tim Pinkawa wrote:
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:12 PM, John Summerfield
<[email protected]> wrote:
and then Debian uses mawk which "is smaller and much faster than gawk."
Interestingly, nawk is symlinked to mawk by default on Debian-based systems.
The same description also says, "mawk is a new awk."
$ readlink /usr/bin/nawk
/etc/alternatives/nawk
$ readlink /etc/alternatives/nawk
/usr/bin/mawk
Not sure if the RH/SLES *awk packages will provide the symlink
automatically, if not it appears to be safe to symlink as others have
mentioned.
Probably, any of the awks will work _for Debian-supplied scripts_.
Debian invented the alternatives system as a method of simplifying
users' choice, and it's used in quite a few packages. RH has adopted it
quite recently, but probably it will never be used much in RHEL (how
many user choices does RH want to support, when each one increases its
costs?).
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John
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