Subj : much change yet still the same ... sort of
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Gerrit Kuehn
Date : Wed Aug 24 2022 20:51:46

Hello Maurice!

24 Aug 22 00:56, Maurice Kinal wrote to Benny Pedersen:


 MK> Besides gawk is GNU and is vastly superior to mawk.
 MK> What is gentoo's default awk?

Why would one have libc flagged executable?

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zsh/2 1208 % ll /lib/libc.so.7
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  1959392  6 Apr. 09:30 /lib/libc.so.7
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BTW: here, "man awk" says

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HISTORY
     An awk utility appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX.
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So why bother about GNU residues at all? ;-)


Regards,
Gerrit

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