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Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu mawk instead of gawk
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> Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 19:48:54 -0400
> From: "David A. Harding" <dave@dtrt.org>
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> On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 07:30:57PM -0400, Matthew Rosewarne wrote:
>> Well, when it comes to dash/bash, it really does make a significant
>> difference
Agree, if you phrase it "significant *speed* difference". OTOH, it's
annoying when you expect /bin/sh to be bash. (I don't, but *lots* of
people brought up on Linux do.) It's just another one of those things
that you have to Just Know or else you get bit.
> It makes a difference with mawk/gawk too:
>
> "Mawk's primary advantages are its speed and robustness.
> Although it has fewer features than gawk, it almost always
> outperforms it." (p. 272)
>
> -- sed & awk, Second Ed. (O'Reilly)
> Dale Dougherty & Arnold Robbins
>
>> I believe [mawk is the awk] version Debian uses by default too.
>
> It does, and it has for a long time.
Interesting. I'm surprised I didn't notice that. OTOH, I install
Debian so rarely (one of Debian's best features!) that I guess I forgot
that I manually installed gawk too. I guess you (re-)learn something
every day. :-)
Thanks,
JP
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