>BTW: Can somebody give me a clue why awk is /usr/bin/awk in Debian (also
>e.g., ksh) (and /bin/awk in most other systems I've seen)?
>What's the standard "#! " way to get a script running on both? ln -s
>/usr/bin/<prg> /bin/<prg> in Debian (and vice versa in other systems)?
>(please cc me)
Debian tries to follow a system where the only programs in bin are those of
utmost importance; this is because some systems mount /usr
remotely but /bin locally, and these systems want to minimize the
space taken up by /bin
To do the script thing: There is no one-line solution that I know of.
You can do it with a shell script:
-- cut
#!/bin/bash
SCRIPT=/your/real/awk/script/goes.here
#try 'which'
AWK=`which awk`;
test -x $AWK && exec $AWK $SCRIPT
#now try standard places (in case which failed)
for AWK in {/bin/,/usr/bin/}{mawk,awk,gawk,nawk}; #any others?
do
test -x $AWK && exec $AWK $SCRIPT ;
done
--end of script
