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

• Last known version: GNU awk v4.1.3 (2015-05-20)
• Latest Version for OS/2-eCS: GNU awk v4.1.1 (2014-10-23)

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)