On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 12:18:16 +0000, A. Dumas wrote:

> Martin Gregorie  wrote:
>> In Raspbian Buster the binary is /usr/bin/mawk with awk and nawk as
>> aliases
>
> Not here, or did you not mean aliases to mawk? It's /usr/bin/awk ->
> /etc/alternatives/awk -> /usr/bin/gawk. /usr/bin/mawk is a separate
> binary with these properties:
>
Well, that is effectively aliases, just selective ones and is what I have
here. I've newer switched that alternative on my RPi, so I've been
running mawk as awk.

Fedora does not use alternatives - just /usr/bin/gawk with /usr/bin/awk
as an alias.


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