Who destroyed Gawker?

Univision Communications
On August 18, 2016, Gawker announced that it would be shutting down following the company’s acquisition by Univision Communications. Its other six websites were unaffected and continue to operate under Univision.

What did Hulk Hogan sued Gawker for?

In 2015, Hogan sued the gossip website Gawker for posting a video of the wrestler having sex with a friend’s estranged wife.

Why did Gawker go out of business?

Gawker Media went bankrupt in 2016 after a $140 million legal judgment against it in an invasion-of-privacy case brought by the former wrestler Hulk Hogan. Thiel had spent about $10 million in secretly backing the lawsuit, a move that many Gawker employees interpreted as an attempt at revenge.

What do you think about Peter Thiel’s financial involvement in the Bollea v Gawker case?

Thiel said he considered his financial backing of the cases against Gawker to be “one of my greater philanthropic things that I’ve done. I think of it in those terms.” He refused to divulge exactly what other cases he has funded but said, “It’s safe to say this is not the only one.”

Can a Mawk get the same result as gawk?

As mawk get the same result as gawk? mawk is a minimal-featured awk designed for speed of execution over functionality. You should not expect it to behave exactly the same as gawk or a POSIX awk.

Is there a difference between AWK and gawk?

First the quick answer: You don’t have to bother: Your system’s awk is just a symlink to either mawk or gawk AND more importantly: all three versions, awk, mawk and gawk are completely compatible. There is (said to be) a difference in speed between awk/gawk and mawk being the (said to be) faster.

Which is the best version of Gawk for Linux?

gawk – abbreviated from GNU awk. The only version in which the developers attempted to add i18n support. Allowed users to write their own C shared libraries to extend it with their own “plug-ins”. This version is the standard implementation for Linux, original AWK was written for Unix v7.

Do you need a Mawk manual to use Mawk?

If you’re going to use mawk, you need to get a mawk manual describing how IT behaves, don’t rely on any other documentation describing how other awks behave. IMHO there is no correct result for the formatting string %-s as it is meaningless to align a string without specifying a width within which to align it.