On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 09:52:10PM +0000, Kushwaha, Priyalee wrote: > Tested 9 distros centos, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Opensuse, slackware, Ubuntu, poky showed awk at /usr/bin/awk. > > Here is another similar patch which has been approved https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9650581/ > > centos-7: > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 15 19:58 /bin/awk -> gawk lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 15 19:58 /usr/bin/awk -> gawk > > Debian-8: > ls: cannot access /bin/awk: No such file or directory lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Mar 20 23:26 /usr/bin/awk -> /etc/alternatives/awk > > Fedora: > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 4 Sep 12 2016 /bin/awk -> gawk lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 4 Sep 12 2016 /usr/bin/awk -> gawk > > Gentoo: > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jan 1 13:57 /bin/awk -> ../usr/bin/gawk lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jan 1 13:57 /usr/bin/awk -> gawk > > Opensuse: > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Mar 20 11:19 /bin/awk -> /etc/alternatives/awk lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Mar 20 11:19 /usr/bin/awk -> /etc/alternatives/usr-bin-awk > > Slackware: > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 10 15:37 /bin/awk -> gawk lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Mar 10 15:37 /usr/bin/awk -> ../../bin/awk > > Ubuntu: > ls: cannot access '/bin/awk': No such file or directory lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Dec 6 2015 /usr/bin/awk -> /etc/alternatives/awk > > Poky: > ls: /bin/awk: No such file or directory > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Apr 20 22:59 /usr/bin/awk This seems fairly conclusive. Based on this, switching over to /usr/bin/awk seems fine. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kselftest" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
