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From: brister@decwrl.dec.com (James Brister)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Am I using old-AWK or new-AWK?
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Date: 4 Jan 91 00:25:56 GMT
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Suppose I want to call AWK from a shell script, but I need the new version
of AWK.  Is there a little AWK script that will tell me what version I'm
using in a "decent" manner (i.e. doesn't just break if run under the old
version).

Thanks

James
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James Brister                                           brister@decwrl.dec.com
DEC Western Software Lab., Palo Alto, CA    {uunet,sun,pyramid}!decwrl!brister