Hi.
A few years ago Erik synced the Plan 9 awk with Brian Kernighan's.
I have recently gotten BWK to fix some long-standing bugs. His code
is updated and available at https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk.
If "someone" wants to pull in his changes, now's a good time to
do so. :-)
Thanks,
Arnold
also check out spew's awk, it's native in 9front.
spew is a 9front user who wanted to improve awk.
there is no separate hg location, branch, etc., awk is in the default
branch of 9front.
i don't know if he wasted a thought on unix while he was doing that,
better ask him: he's on #cat-v on freenode regularly.
the 9front distribution .iso contain