gawk (tool, language) GNU awk. Gawk is a superset of standard awk and includes some Plan 9 features.
David Trueman and Arnold Robbins of Georgia Institute of Technology were developing it in 1993. It has been ported to Unix, MS-DOS, Macintosh, and Archimedes. Latest version: 2.15.3, as of 1993-11-08. Available by FTP from your nearest GNU archive site. Mac version. Last updated: 2000-10-21