Some options were removed from gawk package binaries between CentOS 6 and CentOS 7. This may break functionality of some of your scripts. All option removals with solutions are listed bellow. awk/gawk/pgawk: --compat - option was removed, alternative is --traditional --copyleft - option was removed, alternative is --copyright/-C --gen-po - option was replaced by --gen-pot option --usage -D - short form of --parsedebug was changed to -Y Please check that your scripts are aware of these changes.