Awk hangs during math operation on Solaris

Question

I'm working on a SunOS 5.11/Solaris 11.3 machine. I have a bash script that calculates and exports CPU frequency because I use it frequently in some test scripts.

Here are the two lines of interest:

solaris:~$ CPU_FREQ=$(psrinfo -v 2>/dev/null | grep 'MHz' | head -1 | awk '{print $6}')
solaris:~$ echo $CPU_FREQ
3000
solaris:~$ CPU_FREQ=$(awk "BEGIN {print $CPU_FREQ/1024/1024}")
^C

Why does the awk command hang under Solaris? And what should I be doing different?

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Here's the larger view of the script. It works well under Linux, OS X and the BSDs.

IS_LINUX=$(uname -s | grep -i -c linux)
IS_DARWIN=$(uname -s | grep -i -c darwin)
IS_SOLARIS=$(uname -s | grep -i -c sunos)

# 2.0 GHz or 2.0/1024/1024/1024
CPU_FREQ=1.8189894
if [ "$IS_LINUX" -ne "0" ] && [ -e "/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_max_freq" ]; then
    CPU_FREQ=$(cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_max_freq)
    CPU_FREQ=$(awk "BEGIN {print $CPU_FREQ/1024/1024}")
elif [ "$IS_DARWIN" -ne "0" ]; then
    CPU_FREQ=$(sysctl -a 2>/dev/null | grep 'hw.cpufrequency' | head -1 | awk '{print $3}')
    CPU_FREQ=$(awk "BEGIN {print $CPU_FREQ/1024/1024/1024}")
elif [ "$IS_SOLARIS" -ne "0" ]; then
    CPU_FREQ=$(psrinfo -v 2>/dev/null | grep 'MHz' | head -1 | awk '{print $6}')
    CPU_FREQ=$(awk "BEGIN {print $CPU_FREQ/1024}")
fi

# Used by Crypto++ benchmarks
export CPU_SPEED=$CPU_FREQ

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Here's the output of psrinfo:

$ psrinfo -v
Status of virtual processor 0 as of: 06/07/2016 18:23:29
  on-line since 06/07/2016 14:28:28.
  The i386 processor operates at 3000 MHz,
        and has an i387 compatible floating point processor.
Status of virtual processor 1 as of: 06/07/2016 18:23:29
  on-line since 06/07/2016 14:28:34.
  The i386 processor operates at 3000 MHz,
        and has an i387 compatible floating point processor.
Status of virtual processor 2 as of: 06/07/2016 18:23:29
  on-line since 06/07/2016 14:28:34.
  The i386 processor operates at 3000 MHz,
        and has an i387 compatible floating point processor.
Status of virtual processor 3 as of: 06/07/2016 18:23:29
  on-line since 06/07/2016 14:28:34.
  The i386 processor operates at 3000 MHz,
        and has an i387 compatible floating point processor.

Answer 1

Use nawk under Solaris.

/usr/bin/awk is the legacy, non POSIX awk with which a script only containing a BEGIN action isn't skipping its stdin.

The following statement is appearing in the nawk and /usr/xpg4/bin/awk manual but not in the old awk one:

If an nawk program consists of only actions with the pattern BEGIN, and
the BEGIN action contains no getline function, nawk exits without read-
ing  its input when the last statement in the last BEGIN action is exe-
cuted.

By the way, there is no need to run head, grep, andtwo awk scripts. One awk script can do all of this alone:

 CPU_FREQ=$(psrinfo -v 2>/dev/null | nawk '/MHz/ {print $6/1024;exit}')