The state of the AWK
The state of the AWK
Posted May 25, 2020 19:44 UTC (Mon) by SiB (subscriber, #4048)Parent article: The state of the AWK
Apart from one liners on the shell prompt, I use awk almost daily with gnuplot, to extract the numbers to plot or fit from datafiles. Awk program files have gawk's -i option on the shebang line. Its still one liners on the gnuplot command line, but with a comfortabe set of constants and functions predefined.
Posted Jun 2, 2020 12:41 UTC (Tue)
by amnonbc (guest, #106638)
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A tool simple tool that does one thing well.
A classic of language design, and a pleasure to use!
The state of the AWK
Awk is a masterpiece of minimalism.
Only two features - regular expressions and associative arrays.
And a clear expressive and readable syntax.