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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: awk arguments
Keywords: awk
Message-ID: <13408@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 25 Jul 90 19:10:01 GMT
References: <290@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <290@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> mayne@VSSERV.SCRI.FSU.EDU (William (Bill) Mayne) writes:
-While I am on the subject of awk: I learned about the language
-from the book "The AWK Programming Language" by Kernighan et. al.
-before I started working on unix. I have been disappointed to
-find that the version actually available on every flavor of unix
-I have seen is much weaker than the full version described by the
-book. Are there better versions out there?

As of UNIX System V Release 3.2, "new awk" (the version described in
the book) was provided, although sometimes just under the name "nawk".
It is also available from the AT&T UNIX System ToolChest.