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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: gawk, nawk, and awk
Message-ID: <14670@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 6 Dec 90 20:00:10 GMT
References: <25208@adm.brl.mil>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <25208@adm.brl.mil> gaspar@stl-08sima.army.mil (Al Gaspar) writes:
>What is nawk?

nawk is the version of awk that corresponds to the AWK book.
awk is either the old version or just a synonym for nawk,
depending on how your system was set up.  gawk is GNU's
replacement for nawk.