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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Differences in awk between UNIX flavours Post 22119 by Perderabo on Tuesday 28th of May 2002 02:44:47 PM
Old 05-28-2002
The original awk language is what Sun has in its awk program. At some point, the authors of awk revised the language and they called the result "new awk". At first, most vendors shipped both awk and "new awk", which the latter being in a file called nawk. That is where Sun is today. They have both awk and nawk. Other vendors discarded the old awk, and renamed nawk to be awk.

So most everybody will have the new awk, but it might be called nawk or awk. On Sun, just use nawk and you will be fine.
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IGAWK(1)							 Utility Commands							  IGAWK(1)

NAME
igawk - gawk with include files SYNOPSIS
igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ... igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ... DESCRIPTION
Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1). AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like @include getopt.awk in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path. OPTIONS
See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports. EXAMPLES
cat << EOF > test.awk @include getopt.awk BEGIN { while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1) ... } EOF igawk -f test.awk SEE ALSO
gawk(1) Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995. AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com). Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)
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