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From: Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.demon.co.uk>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Re: Caldera source
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 17:01:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9m60lm$avj$1@inputplus.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200108220821.f7M8LVH04397@skeeve.com>

Hi,

> Gee, I hope no-one tells them that Brian Kernighan has been able to
> make his awk available for going on eight years now.  First via
> netlib, these days off his home page
> (http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/bwk).

Brian's version should be preferred out of the two;  it looks to have
more bugs fixed.

    echo awk | awk '{gsub(/a/, "\\\\&")} 1'


Ralph.


  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-24 17:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-16  1:32 [9fans] Oooops...where is ls -R gone? dmr
2001-08-17  8:49 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-08-17 12:11   ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-17 16:02 ` Dan Cross
2001-08-21 16:32   ` Jon Snader
2001-08-21 19:04     ` Re[2]: " Matt
2001-08-21 20:29       ` Jon Snader
2001-08-22  8:21       ` Caldera source [ was Re: Re[2]: [9fans] Oooops...where is ls -R gone? ] Aharon Robbins
2001-08-24 17:01         ` Ralph Corderoy [this message]
2001-08-21 22:30     ` [9fans] Oooops...where is ls -R gone? Dan Cross

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