Basically you put the definition of $AWK at the beginning of all your scripts and then alter them such that any invocation of awk is
instead of
The
represents lines in your script up to and then between your awk invocations.
Alternatively, assuming you are running your scripts in a shell that uses aliases you could try:
putting the appropriate paths in reverse order of importance (i.e. if you want to use gawk if nawk does not exist the above code uses gawk, but if they both exist nawk is used instead); if nawk appears in different locations depending on the machine you can test for each location. You don't have to modify the rest of the script to invoke $AWK and awk is your default if nothing else exists.
And I only used gawk as an example; I realise you did not mention gawk in the original post.
Andrew
@Andrew: I tried your suggestion for nawk instead of awk but it failed.
Last edited by mohtashims; 01-19-2017 at 01:47 PM..
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.
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