No manual entry for awk

[Tim Daneliuk]

On 1/19/2011 10:08 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
> Chris Velevitch wrote on Jan 19, 2011 at 9:58 PM
>> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:29, Reid Thompson<reid.thompson@ateb.com>  wrote:
>>> try
>>> $ man gawk
>>
>> Interesting. awk is linked to gawk. That means there is an issue with
>> the man pages because, from my experience, any time a command has
>> multiple names, the man entry refers to all alternatives and you can
>> get to the same man entry using all alternatives like 'man awk' or man
>> gawk'.
>
> The awk implementation available via cygwin's setup is gawk; awk is
> just a symlink to gawk.
>
> If you want another implementation, I think that you will be on your
> own.
>
> Just a heads-up:  I expect that few, if any, people on this list find your
> observation interesting, and fewer, if any, will think it an issue.  (Or
> is it the other way around?)  Since you do, I'd suggest that you consider
> looking over the documentation; doing so may save you a lot of "interesting"
> surprises.
>
> Good luck with your research on cygwin.  :-)
>


Not to mention:

    gawk --compat


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