A. Dumas  wrote:
> Martin Gregorie  wrote:
>> 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.
>
> But I also haven't changed those aliases, or at least don't remember. I
> would find it very strange if mawk was the default awk anywhere, but
> especially on Debian/Raspbian which I have used for quite a few years and
> never noticed that awk was linked to mawk. Pretty sure it isn't, in a
> standard installation.

Oh right, what Chris said (again...): not aliases but symbolic links.

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