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mawk

mawk is an open-source interpreter for the AWK programming language, written by Mike Brennan and maintained since 2009 by Thomas E. Dickey. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2.

Licensing at a Glance

  • Open source

  1. mawk was written by Mike Brennan; after a period without a maintainer, Thomas E. Dickey adopted it in 2009.[1]

  2. mawk source files state that mawk is distributed without warranty under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2, 1991.[2]

  3. The mawk source distribution includes the text of the GNU General Public License version 2 (June 1991) as its COPYING file.[3]

  4. The maintainer publishes source archives and cross-compiled Windows binaries (mingw32 and mingw64), and mawk is packaged by many Unix-like distributions.[4]

Products

  • mawk

References

  1. mawk – pattern scanning and text processing language · invisible-island.net · retrieved 2026-09-27
  2. mawk main.c · raw.githubusercontent.com · retrieved 2026-09-27
  3. mawk COPYING · raw.githubusercontent.com · retrieved 2026-09-27
  4. mawk – pattern scanning and text processing language · invisible-island.net · retrieved 2026-09-27
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