[GRASS5] Mawk vs Gawk?

[Paolo Cavallini]

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What is the state of the same module in grass57?
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At 10:24, domenica 03 ottobre 2004, Glynn Clements has probably written:
> Hamish wrote:
> > I've just noticed that (debian/testing's) mawk doesn't work with 5.3's
> > v.in.garmin.sh. Specifically, it doesn't like "%lf"s.
> >
> > Should the script be changed to "%f"s or should mawk be unsupported?
>
> Changed.
>
> > bug or feature? The mawk man page states %lf should be supported.
>
> Bug in v.in.garmin.sh; it's relying unnecessarily upon a gawk
> extension.
>
> The Info file for gawk 3.0.4 says:
>
>      C programmers may be used to supplying additional `l' and `h' flags
>   in `printf' format strings. These are not valid in `awk'.  Most `awk'
>   implementations silently ignore these flags.  If `--lint' is provided
>   on the command line (*note Command Line Options: Options.), `gawk' will
>   warn about their use. If `--posix' is supplied, their use is a fatal
>   error.

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