On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 09:59:21PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
| debian world, awk is mawk.
| So I installed gawk. However unlike when one installs postfix, and
| exim gets kicked out, mawk is unphased and still what one gets if
| one types "awk".
So?
One solution :
# update-alternatives --di
> It seems I would have to got to /etc/alternatives and rip it up and
> point it over by hand.
That confused me too when I first tried debian. But then I learned
that the 'debian way' is to use update-alternatives to manage the
alternatives links.
update-alternatives --display awk
update-al
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 09:59:21PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Back when I used some other leading brand of GNu/Linux, boys were
> boys, girls were girls, and awk was gawk. Now switching to the
> debian world, awk is mawk.
Didn't we go over this, including contributions from the maintainer,
jus
Back when I used some other leading brand of GNu/Linux, boys were
boys, girls were girls, and awk was gawk. Now switching to the
debian world, awk is mawk. I'm worried that the scripts that I've
been writing for years and years will break. So I installed gawk.
However unlike when one installs p
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