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Many awk users are only familiar with the original awk implementation in Version 7 Unix. This chapter briefly describes the evolution of the awk language, with cross references to other parts of the book where you can find more information. This section summarizes the changes, with cross-references to further details. More complete documentation of many of the previously undocumented features of the language. This sections lists them in the order they were added to gawk .