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Today I spent some time doing some research on the history of the awk program. I was a bit concerned by the fact that it was privative software. On GNU/Linux we actually run gawk, which is the GNU version, and it turns out it is the only implementation that takes locales seriously. It also apparently includes a debugger and some features not found in awk nor nawk.

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