This one time, at band camp, Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Last year I discovered mawk sitting there until I banished it away with > apt-get install gawk.
Mawk is smaller and faster, so it makes sense that it's the default awk for a base system. Even in the GNU installer packages for the Hurd, the default awk is mawk rather than gawk. Morgon -- "Man is the only creature capable of hating itself" -- Governor of Japan in The End of Evangelion
