On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 03:05:49PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 09:52:10PM +0000, Kushwaha, Priyalee wrote:
> > Tested 9 distros centos, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Opensuse, slackware,
> > Ubuntu, poky showed awk at /usr/bin/awk.
> >
> > Here is another similar patch which has been approved
> > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9650581/
> >
> > centos-7:
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 15 19:58 /bin/awk -> gawk lrwxrwxrwx 1 root
> > root 4 Mar 15 19:58 /usr/bin/awk -> gawk
> >
> > Debian-8:
> > ls: cannot access /bin/awk: No such file or directory lrwxrwxrwx 1 root
> > root 21 Mar 20 23:26 /usr/bin/awk -> /etc/alternatives/awk
> >
> > Fedora:
> > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 4 Sep 12 2016 /bin/awk -> gawk lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root
> > root 4 Sep 12 2016 /usr/bin/awk -> gawk
> >
> > Gentoo:
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jan 1 13:57 /bin/awk -> ../usr/bin/gawk
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jan 1 13:57 /usr/bin/awk -> gawk
> >
> > Opensuse:
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Mar 20 11:19 /bin/awk -> /etc/alternatives/awk
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Mar 20 11:19 /usr/bin/awk ->
> > /etc/alternatives/usr-bin-awk
> >
> > Slackware:
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 10 15:37 /bin/awk -> gawk lrwxrwxrwx 1 root
> > root 13 Mar 10 15:37 /usr/bin/awk -> ../../bin/awk
> >
> > Ubuntu:
> > ls: cannot access '/bin/awk': No such file or directory lrwxrwxrwx 1 root
> > root 21 Dec 6 2015 /usr/bin/awk -> /etc/alternatives/awk
> >
> > Poky:
> > ls: /bin/awk: No such file or directory
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Apr 20 22:59 /usr/bin/awk
>
> This seems fairly conclusive. Based on this, switching over to
> /usr/bin/awk seems fine.
Thank you both! Josh, may I have your Acked-by?
Thanx, Paul
