Preface

This Web page describes how to participate in development of GNU Awk (gawk). GNU Awk is a Free Software project belonging to the Free Software Foundation’s GNU project.

The Web page focuses on participation in the project (that is, how to work most effectively if you wish to contribute to it) and also describes how to make use of the Git distributed source code management system for gawk development.

You should be comfortable working with traditional UNIX-style tools and with the C language and standard library facilities.