[TUHS] Another awk version is now available

Arnold Robbins via TUHS tuhs at tuhs.org
Fri Sep 25 16:54:11 AEST 2026


Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:

> I ask in pure curiosity - do you have a table with the different awks
> showing features/differences.
> Clem

No, I do not.  That's a lot of work to compile for little ROI; almost
all awks these days are +/- POSIX compliant.  There are differences
around the edges.  A notable exception is mawk, which doesn't handle
multibyte character sets.

A full list of the awk versions I know about may be found at
https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Other-Versions.html.

Arnold


More information about the TUHS mailing list