Following are some hints
- There are many flavors for awk,
mawkminimal&default,gawkfeature-full &nawknew-implementation - For a technical comparison between
mawkandgawkfollow this google discussion - MAWK was slow, follow this guide. But the recent version 1.3.4 seems to fix that
- AWKPATH is only available in
gawk.nawkmay have it too. But the default onemawkonly uses the-fnotation, it doesn't even havet the@inlcudestatement, thus one can't nest the files, without creating a wrapper application, in a conf/lib like directory structure.