I suspect that they are supplied by the same package. Awk would be compiled
with the --traditional option as embedded default.  Gawk can revert to that
mode when supplying that option on the command line.

On Nov 18, 2016 8:21 AM, "Rich Shepard" <[email protected]> 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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