Re: list of portable tools

[Paul Eggert]

address@hidden (Karl Berry) writes:

> what is the issue with awk and NUL bytes?  Does gawk really
> eat NULs?  Or is it other awks that are the problem?  Or is the problem
> theoretical?

Old versions of Gawk mishandle NUL in some cases, though I don't know
of any bugs in the latest stable version.  Other Awk versions
definitely mishandle NUL.  POSIX prohibits the use of NUL in Awk input
files, so portable scripts can't assume it.