GNU awk

The GNU awk, sometimes known as gawk, is a GNU re-implementation of the AWK programming language/macro pre-processor

Charset support (for macro/text processing)

8-bit ASCII (256 Characters according to current codepage). No support for Unicode or DBCS, some older versions of the tool support DBCS and Shift JIS file names.

Version

• 3.0.2 (1996-12-28)
• 3.0.3 (1997-05-16) - OS/2: gnuawk.zip (1997-07-01)
• 3.1.0 (2001-06-03) - OS/2: gawk-3_1_0-bin.zip
• 4.0.0 (2011-06-29)
• 4.1.1 (2014-04-08) - OS/2: gawk-4.1.1.zip (2014-10-23)
• 4.1.3 (2015-05-20)
• 4.1.4 (2016-08-25)

Links

• GNU awk on the FSF website

Licence

Open source software released under the GPL v3 licence

Authors & publisher

• Free Software Foundation
• KO Myung-Hun (OS/2 port)
• Andreas Buening (earlier OS/2 port)
• Jun Sawataishi (earlier OS/2 port)