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kencausey • yesterday at 9:19 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

"When side effects happen is implementation-defined. In other words, it is up to the particular version of awk."

Android appears to use the One True AWK.

  :/ $ awk 'BEGIN{a=5; a = a++ + ++a; print a}'
  12

  :/ $ which awk
  /system/bin/awk

  :/ $ awk --version
  awk version 20240728