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nawk in HP UX 11

Gowrishankar_1 — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 07:25:21 GMT

Hi,
I see that there is no nawk command in HP UX 11. Our HP UX 10.2 Application uses nawk extensively in many script and we currently in the process of upgrading to HPUX 11. I want to know if I can just replace the nawks with the awk or is it going to lead me into trouble ?
Someone please help. Thanks in Advance.
-Gowrish

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Re: nawk in HP UX 11

Slawomir Gora — Thu, 02 Sep 2004 05:33:51 GMT

Hi,

I think that better solution would be placing nawk in different directory ex: /opt/nawk
and correctly setting in your scripts PATH variable.

Re: nawk in HP UX 11

Leif Halvarsson_2 — Thu, 02 Sep 2004 06:00:24 GMT

Hi,

The "new" (HP-UX 11) version of awk has replaced both awk and nawk in previous releeases. You will find all features from nawk in HP-UX 11 awk.

Re: nawk in HP UX 11

Prabu_3 — Sun, 02 Jan 2005 08:03:14 GMT

hi gowrishankar,
did u used awk instead of nawk on HP-UX 11. Was there any difference in their behaviour?. If so, let me know about it.

I am also using HP-UX 11(32 PA-RISC).

Re: nawk in HP UX 11

Victor Fridyev — Sun, 02 Jan 2005 13:55:45 GMT

Hi,

AFAIK, nawk and awk is the same in HPUX11.
If your scripts require nawk and you don't want or can't edit them, print:
ln -s /usr/bin/awk /usr/bin/nawk

HTH

Re: nawk in HP UX 11

ulrichr — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 12:28:27 GMT

Hi,
this is not correct that in 11.23 awk replaces nawk:
If you try to use the followning command you see: it is not working under HP-UX awk,
but is working well with nawk under other OS

awk 'BEGIN { FS=":"; OFS=":" ; while ( getline < shadow > 0 ) shadow[$1] = $2 } /^[a-zA-Z0-9_]/ {$2 = shadow[$1] ; printf "%s\t%s\n", $1, $0 }' passwd