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[Nick Kurshev]

Hello, Fredrik!

On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 22:20:01 +0100 you wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 09:00:40PM +0100, Felix Buenemann wrote:
> > On Saturday, 12. January 2002 17:31, you wrote:
> > > The only problem is: on Arpi's system (Slackware) awk is a symlink for
> > > gawk, on my system it's a symlink for mawk, and noone (?) tested it with
> > > the original(?)-awk. Btw, it worked with gawk,mawk, it could work with awk,
> > > so change it (btw, read my standpoint about is_awk_needed in my previous
> > > mail)
> > on my laptop (SuSE) awk is symlink to gawk. on my server (LFS) it's symlink 
> > to mawk, doesn't matter as long as it's awk compatible.
> > Only thing I had to do, was to change awk version check to -W version which 
> > works with both mawk and gawk and hopefully original awk. --version is only 
> > known by gawk!
> >
> 
> freku045 at astmatix:~$ uname -a
> SunOS astmatix.ida.liu.se 5.8 Generic_108528-10 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4
> freku045 at astmatix:~$ nawk -W version
> nawk: unknown option -W ignored
> ^C
> freku045 at astmatix:~$ awk -W version
> awk: syntax error near line 1
> awk: bailing out near line 1
> 
> The script works with nawk but not with awk on that computer. Why not use perl
> instead? If we use perl we won't have to tell users to get gawk, nawk or mawk
> if their awk didn't work.
> 
I think that not everyone has perl installed on computer.
Although, I'm not expert of perl - I guess that perl might cause the same number
of problems and even more.
> / Fredrik Kuivinen
> 
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Best regards! Nick