It looks like the awk manual page requires a review. It documents nonexistent flags like -V and possibly has more mistakes like this. Reported by Samy Mahmoudi at freebsd-current@ (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2018-July/070298.html).
Also, please see https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=226112
Thank you for this. By the way, I noticed that the NetBSD manual seems up to date as far as -version is concerned.
Some improvements today with revision 362147: awk(1): use -version instead of -V Could you add a dependency on bug 247004?
-V is taken care of in bug #247004.
(In reply to Yuri Pankov from comment #4) Thanks Yuri ;-)