>From: mac2 mail <mac2 at oryx.cc> > >On this note, does OS X ship with an actual copy of awk, or is it gawk >or nawk?? You can be assured that Solaris shipped with an actual copy >of awk, and if you want any of the fancy stuff, you will have to >install nawk or gawk after the fact. > >Jerry K It won't be the original awk. New awk added a lot of functionality that's now considered normal. New awk must be getting on for 15 - 20 years old now. Commercial Unix systems that have a 'nawk' will also have the original awk somewhere (maybe /usr/old). Systems that just have 'awk' supply new awk. David -- David Ledger - Freelance Unix Sysadmin in the UK. Chair of HPUX SysAdmin SIG of hpUG technical user group (www.hpug.org.uk) dledger at ivdcs.co.uk (also dledger at ivdcs.demon.co.uk) www.ivdcs.co.uk