On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 01:16:09PM +0100, mick crane wrote:
> I'd like to learn some awk having found it handy once.
> apt says mawk is installed
>
> in /usr/bin I have
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Apr 2 22:29 awk -> /etc/alternatives/awk
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 658072 Jan 25 12:55 gawk
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3189 Jan 25 12:55 igawk
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 121976 Mar 23 2012 mawk
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Apr 2 22:29 nawk ->
> /etc/alternatives/nawk
>
> "awk" returns options for gawk and "mawk does nothing ( back to prompt)
So, what's the problem?
> how to run mawk ?
mawk
You have already run it once, with no arguments, and it did nothing.
Now try giving it some arguments.
wooledg:~$ mawk -v foo=bar 'BEGIN {print foo}'
bar
See, just like awk.
