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It's the first search result for "awk posix" for me and the fourth for "awk standard".

But yes, sometimes POSIX or the C standard or whatever is too restrictive, but it's still a good starting point for figuring out how to write portable code.

You'll know anything it doesn't cover is implementation-specific, and then either decide it's not worth it to pursue it, or if it is figure out whether the implementations you're targeting support the feature.




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