Re: Geez - is Solaris /usr/bin/awk brain dead or what?

From: Aharon Robbins (arnold_at_skeeve.com)
Date: 09/12/04

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    In article <8s25k05828m4gn42e52dfdop9ct0qigqte@4ax.com>,
    Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSW.ab.ca> wrote:
    >What Solaris ships as /usr/bin/awk is probably the original Seventh
    >Edition version that nobody else has shipped or used for decades; but
    >gawk supports the original semantics with the --traditional option,
    >which you might want to test on your old script.

    No, gawk's --traditional option makes gawk support some of the stuff that
    the 1989 nawk did that wasn't documented, but it does NOT make gawk into a
    clone of the V7 awk. See the gawk doc for the details, I don't remember
    all of them off the top of my head.

    I suspect it's a Solaris man page bug, since the man page describes the
    newer versions which include ?:. The V7 awk did not.

    If the program uses ?:, Kenny, you have little choice except to use
    /bin/nawk or /usr/xpg4/bin/nawk. On the Solaris systems I've seen, they're
    different binaries. The latter, for example, should support CONVFMT.

    BTW, is it really all that hard to put

            #! /usr/xpg4/bin/awk -f

    at the top of the script?

    Arnold 

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