mawk: mawk (fast awk implementation) mawk: mawk: mawk (Mike's AWK) is an interpreter for the AWK Programming mawk: Language. It's a very fast AWK implementation based on a bytecode mawk: interpreter. Originally written by Mike Brennan, mawk is currently mawk: maintained by Thomas E. Dickey. mawk: mawk: Package built with mawk's built-in regular expression engine. mawk: mawk: mawk: