Source Code

The following URLs indicate where to get source code for four freely available versions of awk, and for GNU gettext .

http://cm.bell-labs.com/~bwk

Brian Kernighan’s home page, with links to the source code for the latest version of awk from Bell Laboratories.

ftp://ftp.whidbey.net/pub/brennan/mawk1.3.3.tar.gz

Michael Brennan’s mawk . A very fast, very robust version of awk.

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk/

The Free Software Foundation’s version of awk, called gawk.

http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/gawk.html

The Free Software Foundation’s home page for gawk.

http://awka.sourceforge.net

The home page for awka, a translator that turns awk programs into C, compiles the generated C, and then links the object code with a library that performs the core awk functions.

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/

The source code for GNU gettext. Get this if you need to produce translations for your awk programs that use gawk.

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