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which among the following is not a type of awk

  1. awk

  2. gawk

  3. nawk

  4. mawk
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awk, gawk, nawk, and mawk are all genuine, real-world AWK interpreters/implementations: 'awk' is the original 1977 AT&T Bell Labs version (aka the 'one true awk' by Kernighan et al.), nawk is Kernighan's 'new awk' rewrite, gawk is the GNU project's implementation (default on most Linux distros), and mawk is Mike Brennan's fast bytecode-interpreted implementation (Debian/Ubuntu's default /usr/bin/awk). Since every option presented is an authentic AWK variant, there is no factually correct 'not a type of awk' answer among the four choices given -- the question as constructed has no valid correct option in this option set (it likely belongs to a version of the question with a fake distractor like 'perl' or 'kawk' that got dropped or substituted here).

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