Include GNU awk 3.1.5 [PSARC/2008/594 FastTrack timeout 09/26/2008]
James Carlson
james.d.carlson at sun.com
Mon Sep 22 11:20:42 PDT 2008
Carol Fields writes:
> > The question is this: why does the GNU user see 'awk' as expected,
> > without having to type 'g' to get it, but then has to add in a
> > superfluous 'g' in order to access those other two variants?
> >
> > Is this inconsistent layout (with "awk" plus "[ip]gawk") common on
> > other GNU distributions?
>
> Yes, on Ubuntu, /usr/bin/igawk and /usr/bin/pgawk are installed, and
> there is no /usr/bin/iawk nor /usr/bin/pawk.
*boggle*
OK; if that's what users really expect, then I guess I don't care so
much. Seems like an error to me ...
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