pkgsrc-wip/netbsd-awk/DESCR
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This is a NetBSD version of awk(1)
Major changes from original nawk:
- fixed: serious bug with regular expression, NetBSD PR/33392
- tolower/toupper functions support multibyte charsets, NetBSD PR/36394
- there is no hardcoded limit on number of open files, NetBSD PR/37205
- incorrect handling of \ at the end of line in awk script, NetBSD PR/37212
- fixed: description of function "close" in man page, PR/38132
- fixed: incorrect matching of [:cntrl:], PR/38737
- warning about non-portable escape sequences, PR/39002
- fixed: free(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense, PR/39132
- fixed: broken -Ft is broken, PR/39133
- fixed: segfaults when "nextfile" is in BEGIN {...}, bin/39134
- fixed: nawk doesn't handle RS as a RE but as a single character, PR/30294
- fixed: awk(1) crash with RE and ^ anchor, PR/40689