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A.5 Extensions in gawk Not in POSIX awk

The GNU implementation, gawk, adds a large number of features. They can all be disabled with either the --traditional or --posix options (see section Command-Line Options).

A number of features have come and gone over the years. This section summarizes the additional features over POSIX awk that are in the current version of gawk.


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