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 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
