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Re: gawk long lines bug?


From: Tom Lord
Subject: Re: gawk long lines bug?
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 14:53:22 -0800 (PST)

       > If you don't need any of the gawk extensions, I suggest you switch to
       > using mawk.

On the other hand, if you want a Posix awk, at least some versions of
"mawk" won't do.  In particular, they don't (according to bug reports
I get) understand ERE regexps like:

        "[[:space:]]"

-t




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