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GAWK

• gawk reference manual
• gawk notes (just a little historical context about the development of GNU awk)

Version

This is gawk version 5.4.1

$ bin/gawk --version
GNU Awk 5.4.1, API 4.1, PMA Avon 8-g1, (GNU MPFR 4.2.0, GNU MP 6.2.1)
Copyright (C) 1989, 1991-2026 Free Software Foundation.

Source

I downloaded the gawk 5.4.1 tarball from the gnu ftp site

The build instructions are the same as for bash