Re: Awk scripts & Debian awk version
On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 01:48:57PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote:
>
> I have some small scripts that keep a log file of notes. The
> searchlog feature uses awk. Now that I have decided to move my
> operating from the Slackware box that the scripts work in to debian,
> the scripts no longer work.
>
> Doing some research I found that the boxes have different versions
> of awk/mawk.
>
> The slackware system: awk -W version GNU Awk 3.0.3
> and debiam Slink awk -W version mawk 1.3.3 Nov 1996.
>
> Questions.
> Rather than load up the newer awk from the tarball at the
> GNU site, are there, or will there be, an updated awk in the base
> package of potato?
>
> Would moving to the GNU awk affect any debian specific items?
> Namely deselect, apt-get, dpkg?
>
> Should I just bite the bullet, bone up on awk, and fix the damm
> scripts? Yes I know, I _should_ know awk.
>
> Which is the newer/better/most compatiable Awk?
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> Wayne
>
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Have you looked at the gawk pacakge? I think it does what you want. AFAIK,
the mawk package is installed by default in the base system because it
is smaller and space on the floppies is a premium.
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