[TUHS] Another awk version is now available

Arnold Robbins via TUHS tuhs at tuhs.org
Fri Sep 25 13:49:53 AEST 2026


Hi Marc.

Marc Donner <marc.donner at gmail.com> wrote:

> Did you consider asking Peter Weinberger and Brian Kernighan for the
> regression test suite they have for their version?  And the gawk test suite?

Peter isn't involved in awk development. Brian's tests are in
his git repo. I'm the gawk maintainer, so I have the gawk tests. :-)

I'm not interested enough in it to set up a test suite. I use it
occasionally when I want to compare multiple versions, more or less
like so:

	for i in nawk mawk gawk mksawk wak 'busybox awk' goawk
	do
		echo ==== $i
		$i '....'
	done

Thanks,

Arnold


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