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		justwalt on April 2, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: An eBook with hundreds of GNU Awk one-lin... How often does a MacOS user who frequently uses awk lack the ability to install gawk?

twic on April 2, 2020 [–]

The claim under discussion in this deep subthread is "it is very rare that you see a system that awk is frequently used on that doesn't have GNU awk installed", so this is irrelevant.

justwalt on April 4, 2020 | [–]

That seems like an awfully pedantic position to take. The ability to install a program is irrelevant?

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