On Sunday 14 February 2010 18:11:25 Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:51:16 -0500 (EST), Lisi wrote: > > On Sunday 14 February 2010 17:38:48 Paul E Condon wrote: > >> On 20100214_100441, John Salmon wrote: > >>> Is there a way to change the field seperators in Bash's read command > >>> (Debian Lenny)? I could use gawk to do what I need but, since gawk > >>> isn't installed in the Lenny distribution, I'de rather use something > >>> that is. > >>> > >>> John Salmon > >>> salmo...@comcast.net > >> > >> gawk may not be the default awk workalike in lenny, but it is > >> certainly available in lenny, at least it was a couple of months ago, > >> just before I switched to squeeze. > > > > It is the Lenny default on my system. I.e. it is installed, but I hadn't > > asked for it. > > awk is a virtual package provided by both the real package mawk and the > real package gawk. On my Lenny system, mawk is installed, but gawk is not. > Most awk scripts will work fine with mawk. But occasionally an awk script > will use features that don't work with the mawk implementation of awk but > will work with the gawk implementation of awk. > > aptitude install mawk_ gawk > > will replace mawk with gawk. It is possible to have both installed, > in which case gawk seems to override mawk.
Mmm. But I have only gawk, and installed neither. Nor any other awk. It probably depends which set-up one asks for during installation. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201002141823.08796.lisi.re...@gmail.com
