Subject: Re: Replacing in-tree gawk with nawk ?
To: None <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 01/16/2001 02:39:57
Jarom r Dolecek <dolecek@ics.muni.cz>  wrote:

> I don't have much experience with nawk. What do you think, is it
> good enough replacement of gawk ?

My only concern would be that people might have used GNUisms
in existing scripts and that these would break.  Do you have
a comparision of language features between the two?

Simon.
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