gawk: gawk (pattern scanning and processing language) gawk: gawk: Gawk is the GNU Project's implementation of the AWK programming gawk: language. It conforms to the definition of the language in the POSIX gawk: 1003.2 Command Language And Utilities Standard. This version in turn gawk: is based on the description in The AWK Programming Language, by Aho, gawk: Kernighan, and Weinberger, with the additional features found in the gawk: System V Release 4 version of UNIX awk. Gawk also provides more gawk: recent Bell Labs awk extensions, and some GNU-specific extensions. gawk: gawk: