Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 13:48:22 -0500 From: Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com> To: "'freebsd-current@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: awk versus gawk Message-ID: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C85337035E3FC4@mail.sandvine.com>
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So it appears current has switched 'gawk' to 'awk'. These
aren't 100% compatible, here's a little gotcha in case
someone else runs into it:
awk '{print var}' var='a
b'
works on 'gawk' (e.g. RELENG_4), but on current, will
awk '{print var}' var='a
b'
awk: newline in string a
b... at source line 1
FYI, in case anyone else runs into it. Not sure if this
is just gawk being more expressive.
--don
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