Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 20:59:03 -0400 From: Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org> To: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: import bawk? Re: NO_AWK Message-ID: <20011025205902.G11022@buffoon.automagic.org> In-Reply-To: <20011025135022.A80517@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <200110250153.f9P1rd0H071528@atg.aciworldwide.com> <20011024211434.G15052@elvis.mu.org> <20011025135022.A80517@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 01:50:22PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 09:14:34PM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > Is bawk a BSD licensed version of awk? What about replacing gawk with > > bawk? Any drawbacks? > > bawk is license friendly for us. I've gotten all the gawk'isms out of > our tree and have run bawk as my system awk for a while. Want me to just > do the vendor import and cut us over? > > I have not done this yet, because I know bawk can be slower than gawk and > didn't want to fight that battle. gawk has features that bawk doesn't have. I write a lot of awk (more than is healthy) and I know I am guilty of using gawkisms. Hence, at the least, a large HEADS UP may be worthwhile ahead of such a change to warn morons like me that their scripts may be about to start breaking. Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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