bin/171725: awk(1) does not support word-boundary metacharacters

[Devin Teske]

The following reply was made to PR bin/171725; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Devin Teske <devin.teske at fisglobal.com>
To: <bug-followup at FreeBSD.org>, <dteske at FreeBSD.org>
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/171725: awk(1) does not support word-boundary metacharacters
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:18:34 -0700

 Swapping \< and \> (GNU syntax) for [[:<:]] and [[:>:]] (POSIX syntax) resp=
 ectively.
 
 This makes no difference as one-true-awk uses its own regular expression co=
 de (read: does not use libc which already supports [[:</>:]] word-bounding).
 --=20
 Devin
 
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