Re: Awk issues: system awk vs [ng]awk in ports

On Mar 22, 2007, at 22:20, John Korchok wrote:

./MKparametrized.sh: line 61: 25116 Illegal instruction ${AWK-awk} '

If I understand my bash syntax, that should mean "the value of the variable AWK, unless it's undefined, in which case use the value 'awk'". The variable AWK is defined, or at least should be, to the value "gawk", per your previously posted output in that other thread.