grep, etc

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 11:58:53AM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> Simon--er, no...it was Bob Stockler--said:
> > Correction . . . it's "mawk", and not "nawk", that's the fastest
> > of all of the various flavors of AWK.
> 
> I -knew- I'd get nailed on that.  I thought I'd seen both, so I did a quick
> google searh to verify that nawk existed, but I apparently remembered the
> wrong permutation -anyway-.  Sorry, Bob.  :)

Nope, there *is* a nawk: awk changed once within the Labs:

http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?nawk

Cheers,
-- jra
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