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awk
Brian Kernighan
has made his version available via his home page
(see Other Freely Available awk
Implementations).
This section describes common extensions that
originally appeared in his version of awk
:
func
as an abbreviation for function
(see Function Definition Syntax)
fflush()
built-in function for flushing buffered output
(see Input/Output Functions)
See Common Extensions Summary for a full list of the extensions
available in his awk
.