Awk strftime on Mac OS X

Question

The following command on my Mac (10.6) gives me an undefined function error:

$ awk 'BEGIN{now=strftime("%D", systime()); print now}'
awk: calling undefined function strftime
 source line number 1

On a Red Hat system, I get the expected result:

$ awk 'BEGIN{now=strftime("%D", systime()); print now}'
12/01/09

What's the deal here?

Answer 1

Use Homebrew and then just run brew install gawk