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IIRC (no Ubuntu VM handy right now) mawk is the default with a minimal LTS install, using alternatives to point awk at it. When you apt install gawk it has a hi
by spinax 5y ago
IIRC (no Ubuntu VM handy right now) mawk is the default with a minimal LTS install, using alternatives to point awk at it. When you apt install gawk it has a higher priority in alternatives and flips the awk symlinks over to gawk automagically.
- version_five 5y ago> gawk it has a higher priority in alternatives and flips the awk symlinks over to gawk automagically That must be what happened. I just checked my other machine that had a pretty new install of 20.04 on it, and it does have mawk. I'm happy to see I'm not crazy.