[21483] in Athena Bugs
solaris's awk man page and binary disagree
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (seph)
Fri Feb 14 18:18:18 2003
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To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 18:18:15 -0500
From: seph <seph@MIT.EDU>
the solaris man page for awk says that it should support syntax like:
{ FS = "[^0-9]+" }
however, /usr/bin/awk looks for a literal [^0-9], instead of any
non-digit character. This is contrary to the man page.
There was some speculation on -c help -i awk that the manpage might
really be describing an early version of nawk, and not awk, but I'm
not familiar with enough of the subtleties to know.
seph
