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[Gábor Lénárt]

On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 08:25:42PM +0300, Nick Kurshev wrote:
> > Ehhhm. Here (Debian sid) awk is a symlink to mawk, and NO gawk is installed
> > (though I can install gawk). AND it's in gawk and mawk packages in Debian
> > (not in fileutils), though both of Debian packages mawk and gawk provides
> > 'awk' and only this dependency information is used by other packages (so you
> > can't remove both of mawk and gawk without breaking dependency but you CAN
> > install mawk OR gawk only). Imho, if at least two distribution indicates
> > that gawk is not a standard, we should follow this (whatever this is true or
> > not).
> Any version?

What type of version number do you mean?

> > Please use standard awk instead of gawk. It's more portable and you won't
> > worry about awk implementation installed. Oh, and another point: mawk
> > is faster than gawk ...
> > 
> Gawk spends 3 sec under WinNT on Cel1-266 ;)

I haven't checked it yet, but I've read that mawk is faster than GNU awk.
However I'm not sure :)

- Gábor