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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Nawk special numbers Post 302942375 by MadeInGermany on Tuesday 28th of April 2015 10:16:33 AM
Old 04-28-2015
Nawk special numbers
Just stumbled over a terrible feature in nawk derivates. I did not find it documented in man pages.
HP-UX 11.31:
Code:
echo info | awk '{print $1+0}'
inf
echo nano | awk '{print $1+0}'
nan
echo info | awk '{print $1-$1}'
-nan

Solaris 10:
Code:
echo info | nawk '{print $1+0}'
Inf
echo nano | nawk '{print $1+0}'
NaN
echo info | nawk '{print $1-$1}'
NaN

I hope this is not implemented in any Posix or GNU awk version...
Last edited by MadeInGermany; 04-28-2015 at 11:24 AM.. Reason: OS version
 

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ucblinks(1B)					     SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands					      ucblinks(1B)

NAME

       ucblinks - adds /dev entries to give SunOS 4.x compatible names to SunOS 5.x devices

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/ucb/ucblinks [-e rulebase] [-r rootdir]

DESCRIPTION

       ucblinks  creates symbolic links under the /dev directory for devices whose SunOS 5.x names differ from their SunOS 4.x names. Where possi-
       ble, these symbolic links point to the device's SunOS 5.x name rather than to the actual /devices entry.

       ucblinks does not remove unneeded compatibility links; these must be removed by hand.

       ucblinks should be called each time the system is reconfiguration-booted, after any new SunOS 5.x links that are needed have been  created,
       since the reconfiguration may have resulted in more compatibility names being needed.

       In  releases prior to SunOS 5.4, ucblinks used a  nawk rule-base to construct the SunOS 4.x compatible names. ucblinks no longer uses  nawk
       for the default operation, although  nawk rule-bases can still be specifed with the -e option.  The  nawk rule-base equivalent to the SunOS
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OPTIONS

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FILES

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SEE ALSO

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