Following are some hints
- There are many flavors for awk,
mawk
minimal&default,gawk
feature-full &nawk
new-implementation - For a technical comparison between
mawk
andgawk
follow 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
.nawk
may have it too. But the default onemawk
only uses the-f
notation, it doesn't even havet the@inlcude
statement, thus one can't nest the files, without creating a wrapper application, in a conf/lib like directory structure.