[uClibc]Re: Awk poetry ;) [was: awk replacement for initfini.pl]

Rogelio M. Serrano Jr. rogelio at quarq.info
Tue Oct 15 12:53:19 UTC 2002


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On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Rob Landley wrote:

> On Monday 14 October 2002 10:47 pm, Jim Treadway wrote:
> > On 15 Oct 2002, Miles Bader wrote:
> > > Christian MICHON <christian_michon at yahoo.fr> writes:
> > > > = save as initfini.awk ============
> > > > = cut here ========================
> > > > #! /usr/bin/awk -f
> > >
> > > Note that for historical reasons, it's often preferable to use
> > > `/usr/bin/nawk' instead (some systems, notably those from sun, keep
> > > horrible braindead not-used-since-1982 versions of awk in /usr/bin/awk;
> > > most modern systems just have awk and nawk pointing at the same program).
> >
> > Note that Red Hat 7.2 and Red Hat 7.3 systems don't seem to have
> > /usr/bin/nawk (or /usr/bin/nawk for that matter).
> >
> > 	/bin/awk -> gawk
> > 	/bin/gawk
> > 	/usr/bin/awk -> ../../bin/gawk
> > 	/usr/bin/gawk -> ../../bin/gawk
> >
> > Jim
>
> linux from scratch recently switched from nawk to gawk (gnu awk).  I'm
> thinking of switching back, in my continuing quest to get a system which
> honestly can NOT be described as "GNU/Linux", even by the most rabid fanatic.
> :)
>

mawk is best. and it works in a standalone uclibc system.

> Rob
>
> (Now if I could just get tcc to compile...  well, anything, really...)
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