Re: Read command field seperators in Bash
On 2010-02-14 19:23 +0100, Lisi wrote:
> On Sunday 14 February 2010 18:11:25 Stephen Powell wrote:
>>
>> awk is a virtual package provided by both the real package mawk and the
>> real package gawk. On my Lenny system, mawk is installed, but gawk is not.
>> Most awk scripts will work fine with mawk. But occasionally an awk script
>> will use features that don't work with the mawk implementation of awk but
>> will work with the gawk implementation of awk.
>>
>> aptitude install mawk_ gawk
>>
>> will replace mawk with gawk. It is possible to have both installed,
>> in which case gawk seems to override mawk.
This is handled by the alternatives system, gawk has a higher priority
than mawk so if you don't take any measures it will provide /usr/bin/awk.
See update-alternatives(8).
> Mmm. But I have only gawk, and installed neither. Nor any other awk. It
> probably depends which set-up one asks for during installation.
Well, mawk has been of priority 'required' for a very long time, so I
guess you removed it manually at some point. Any method to install
Debian will install all required packages, AFAIK.
Sven
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