awk: invalid -v option [OS X Lion]

[abh1nav]

When attempting to auto-complete "./manage runserver" in a Django Project root folder, an awk error pops up:

(venv)➜ project git:(master) ./manage.py runs➜awk: invalid -v option

erver

Although it manages to complete the option, it seems awk does not support the -v flag on OS X Lion.

[oinopion]

Will this be fixed? Is there any work-around?

[stephenmckinney]

+1 I'm having the same issue.

[ukch]

I have the same issue with various other tools (for instance svn)

[mateuszdraco]

+1, the same issue :(

[stephenmckinney]

This bug is fixed in the sorin's fork. When they merge for 2.0, all be right again

[surjikal]

Still having this issue.

[phretor]

+1 - please fix this, it's very annoying.

[ricardodani]

+1 here. Any workahound?

[ternus]

+1 here -- please fix

[humiaozuzu]

Try using gawk will solve the issue

brew install gawk

[GregIngelmo]

brew install gawk

That worked, thank you.

[benguillet]

Same as @kemist, fixed the issue

[lajarre]

+1, why not put a space after "-v"? see there => http://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2013/msg00023.html
Ok with macports gawk though

[dschien]

@lajarre I installed gawk with brew but that didn't help. I also can't find the line in plugings/django/django.plugin.zsh
Could you tell me in what file should I add the space, please?

[jcelliott]

Thanks @humiaozuzu. @dschien I had to symlink awk to gawk. It probably didn't work for you because /usr/bin/awk is in your path before /usr/local/bin/gawk.

[jakob223]

As @jcelliott I needed to symlink awk to gawk and now it works.

[ybbarng]

I found the 'awk -vdrop' in /usr/share/zsh/5.0.2/functions/_django 62 line, therefore I modified it to 'awk -v drop' and reloaded zsh. Now the autocompletion is good.

[thornomad]

Had the same issues, fixed using gawk ... I also tried version 5.0.5 of zsh via brew and it is still in there.

Although it appears the issue was patched back in Jan of 2013: zsh-users/zsh@0969fb9

[mcornella]

Thank you @thornomad for going the extra mile and checking the homebrew installation and the zsh repo ✨

You should try zsh 5.0.6, it's definitely solved there (though in 5.0.5 it was too), and it should also be available via brew

[DingBowen123]

I fixed it by brew install gawk