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Re:Coreutils Gotchas (2015) by spinax on Friday June 18, 2021 @12:35PM (#27552131)
IIRC (no Ubuntu VM handy right now) mawk is the default with a minimal LTS install, using alternatives to point awk at it. When you apt install gawk it has a higher priority in alternatives and flips the awk symlinks over to gawk automagically.
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Re:Coreutils Gotchas (2015) by version_five on Friday June 18, 2021 @01:59PM (#27553033)
> gawk it has a higher priority in alternatives and flips the awk symlinks over to gawk automagically

That must be what happened. I just checked my other machine that had a pretty new install of 20.04 on it, and it does have mawk. I'm happy to see I'm not crazy.

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