From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Apr 20 1:48:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC55C37B8CA for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 01:48:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA07410 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 10:48:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id KAA00914 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 10:48:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: from gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de (T1-Hansenet.BIK-GmbH.de [192.76.134.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 514FD37BDA1; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 01:48:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cracauer@gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de) Received: (from cracauer@localhost) by gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de (8.9.3/8.7.3) id KAA17461; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 10:48:16 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 10:48:16 +0200 From: Martin Cracauer To: "David O'Brien" Cc: "Pedro F. Giffuni" , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No nawk ?? Message-ID: <20000420104816.G14732@cons.org> References: <200004081636.SAA07027@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> <38EF78E3.B86EFC11@asme.org> <20000409141853.C1252@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000409141853.C1252@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.ORG on Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 02:18:53PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <20000409141853.C1252@dragon.nuxi.com>, David O'Brien wrote: > On Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 01:22:27PM -0500, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > > Check out mawk; it's faster and is fully POSIX. I agree that nawk is > > limited WRT the other awks, but I prefer it for the base system due to > > the history it has and because it's smaller and faster than gawk. GNU > > awk is the worst of the three options (many bugs, big and slow). > > If I'm unable to get nawk to work as our base awk, switching to mawk (for > the reasons above) is my other plan [sometime in the future of course]. I can't offer hard data either, but I remember mawk breaking on some valid extension-free scripts for me (coredumping) and nawk being rather slow. gawk seems to be the awk that most people step on and that gets most fixes. It is unfortunate that our standard awk support non-standard extensions, though, I wish it had a non-extensions mode like bash has. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany http://www.bsdhh.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message