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From: "Eric S. Van Gyzen" <eric@stat.duke.edu>
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Subject: gnu/35156: suggestion: hard link /usr/bin/awk to /usr/bin/gawk
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>Number:         35156
>Category:       gnu
>Synopsis:       suggestion: hard link /usr/bin/awk to /usr/bin/gawk
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Feb 20 12:10:01 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Eric S. Van Gyzen
>Release:        4.4-STABLE
>Organization:
>Environment:
N/A
>Description:
FreeBSD's awk is GNU awk, but the gawk command doesn't exist (in the base system).  Some Linux binaries assume that "gawk" exists.  Consider linking /usr/bin/awk to /usr/bin/gawk.  Granted, this would conflict with ports/lang/gawk, but perhaps the port should be removed in favor of keeping src/contrib/awk up to date.
>How-To-Repeat:
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>Fix:
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