From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 26 17:59:59 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0B1D16A4CE for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 17:59:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D042943D31 for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 17:59:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DFFZI-0002cs-Aw for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 18:59:28 +0100 Received: from pcp08490587pcs.levtwn01.pa.comcast.net ([68.83.169.224]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 18:59:28 +0100 Received: from apeiron+usenet by pcp08490587pcs.levtwn01.pa.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 18:59:28 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Christopher Nehren Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 17:59:22 +0000 (UTC) Organization: /usr/bin/false Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <20050326125154.Y49808@zoraida.natserv.net> X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pcp08490587pcs.levtwn01.pa.comcast.net User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (FreeBSD) Sender: news X-Gmane-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Gmane-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Gmane-MailScanner-SpamScore: s X-MailScanner-From: freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org X-MailScanner-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AWK in 4.X different from 5.X? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 17:59:59 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-03-26, Francisco Reyes scribbled these curious markings: > Are the AWK in the 4.X branch and 5.X branch different? > Looking at > http://www.shelldorado.com/articles/awkcompat.html#os11 > > it seems the AWK in the 4.X branch has strftime. > I have 5.3 in my machine and AWK doesn't have that function. Probably because the awk on a 4.x machine is GNU awk, whereas the 5.x awk is the awk that comes straight from the horse's mouth, so to speak, and so thus hasn't been "extended" with GNUisms. Best Regards, Christopher Nehren -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCRaMVk/lo7zvzJioRAnIaAJ9PoqgjruOl1n4xaWupkR8It5yEcQCggK5H Kt/c44EQ2hKao69bzpjfqa0= =E616 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- I abhor a system designed for the "user", if that word is a coded pejorative meaning "stupid and unsophisticated". -- Ken Thompson If you ask the wrong questions, you get answers like "42" and "God". Unix is user friendly. However, it isn't idiot friendly.