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Janis,

Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:

> On 27.02.2025 09:44, Aharon Robbins wrote:
>> 
>> The MKS toolkit is as you described, it's been around for ages.  Like
>> almost 40 years.  The awk from it became the POSIX awk in Solaris. [...]
>
> Interesting. - BTW...
>
> Many years ago I tried to find out where the Mac OS_X Awk stems from.
> Back then I could not find any hint on that.
>
> Does anyone know what Awk version is/was the base of Apple's Awk?

At https://opensource.apple.com/releases/ you will find which macOS
release includes which Apple build of AWK. You can also run strings on
the awk executable and grep for PROJECT, which for me (macOS Sequoia)
shows:

@(#)PROGRAM:awk  PROJECT:awk-40

At https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/awk you can then find the
latest version (awk-40) on main and older versions on their own branch.
For all but the oldest there is an awk.plist file. In there you see:

	<key>OpenSourceWebsiteURL</key>
	<string>https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk</string>

So, macOS AWK appears to be BWK AWK.

Hope this helps.

-- 
Alex.

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