BTL (The GNU Awk User’s Guide)
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A.4 Extensions in Brian Kernighan’s awk
Brian Kernighan has made his version available via his home page (see section Other Freely Available awk Implementations).
This section describes common extensions that originally appeared in his version of awk
:
- The ‘
**
’ and ‘**=
’ operators (see section Arithmetic Operators and Assignment Expressions) - The use of
func
as an abbreviation forfunction
(see section Function Definition Syntax) - The
fflush()
built-in function for flushing buffered output (see section Input/Output Functions)
See section Common Extensions Summary for a full list of the extensions available in his awk
.