Timeline for POSIX Awk on Solaris 11?
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| Apr 23, 2017 at 12:52 | history | edited | jlliagre | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 23 characters in body |
| Apr 23, 2017 at 8:21 | history | edited | jlliagre | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 126 characters in body |
| Apr 23, 2017 at 8:13 | comment | added | jlliagre | @StéphaneChazelas Indeed, clarification added to my reply. Thanks. | |
| Apr 23, 2017 at 8:12 | history | edited | jlliagre | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 126 characters in body |
| Apr 23, 2017 at 7:53 | comment | added | Stéphane Chazelas | nawk is almost POSIX (it doesn't support CONVFMT for instance), but yes, at least that's not as bad as grep (that doesn't have the POSIX -e/-E for instance) or tr (that doesn't have tr a-f A-F). | |
| Apr 23, 2017 at 7:18 | comment | added | jlliagre | @StéphaneChazelas In any case, a POSIX awk is always present on a Solaris system or non global zone so the issue is not about availability but limited to the name of the command (nawk vs awk). docs.oracle.com/cd/E53394_01/html/E54763/nawk-1.html | |
| Apr 21, 2017 at 14:11 | comment | added | jlliagre | @StéphaneChazelas Yes, these systems are not qualified so are obviously not covered. Same would happen if Solaris is installed on a non qualified hardware. POSIX/Unix compliance is not a prerequisite for Solaris to work properly. Solaris itself makes no use of POSIX utilities when they differ from its own ones. | |
| Apr 21, 2017 at 14:02 | comment | added | Stéphane Chazelas | The lack of a POSIX compliant awk is a POSIX conformance failure. A system that doesn't have a POSIX compliant awk can't run POSIX compliant scripts. Those small-solaris-server are not POSIX let alone Unix systems. And I suppose they're not covered by the certificate Solaris obtained from the Open Group. | |
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| Apr 21, 2017 at 9:27 | history | edited | jlliagre | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 392 characters in body |
| Apr 21, 2017 at 8:19 | history | answered | jlliagre | CC BY-SA 3.0 |