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Some info: bignums support, new extension mechanism, pgawk and dgawk merged into gawk, some posix compliance changes. Beware, the dynamically loadable extensions are documented in a custom man subdir. "this looks good to me" sthen@, ok naddy@
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GNU AWK is a pattern scanning and processing tool. It conforms to the
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definition of the language in the POSIX 1003.1 Standard. This version in
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turn is based on the description in The AWK Programming Language, by Aho,
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Kernighan, and Weinberger. Gawk provides the additional features found in the
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current version of Brian Kernighan's awk(1) and a number of GNU-specific
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extensions.
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Among these extensions:
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- profiler
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- interactive debugger a la GDB
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- file inclusion, useful to share code between Gawk scripts
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- API for loadable extension modules
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- lint mode to warn about possible portability problems
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- bignums, for arbitrary precision arithmetic
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- socket networking
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