awk VS makesure

Awk now supports a `--csv` flag for processing csv's. https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk/blob/master/README.md

Right, "the one true awk" corresponds to a book written in 1988, very explicity. https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk

You were the one that that said POSIX awk to begin with, I was using your terms.

As far as shitting on the GMU tools, I don't think I've seen someone do that for over 20 years.

This is not a productive conversation. You can live life however you want

I also wrote a small program to benchmark and check the solutions across different Awk implementations (see the image). I use the macos system awk (which is pretty close to https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk if I'm not mistaken) as a reference (the first column), so all solutions had to work with that.

A simpler Yacc grammar is awk/awkgram.y.

Neat, this is now the third year I'm using awk and still learning new tricks. (I'm using awk as the reference, so I don't use gnu extensions.)

I did this in nawk, which doesn't support extended regular expressions. If instead you're using gawk, which does, check out \b for word boundaries in extended regular expressions. The [^a-z][a-z] approach you showed consumes the prior character.

BWK’s commit and test files (mentioned in the video)

https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk/commit/d3a19e6f2533d479841...

git clone -b unicode-support https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk.git

This is dumb as fuck. Brian Kernighan of K&R (The C Programming Language) is 80 and he’s still more intelligent than any of you retards. Mf just submitted a patch to awk a couple months ago https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk

The Unicode branch: https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk/tree/unicode-support

makesure, a similar tool (https://maximullaris.com/makesure-vs-just.html) I'm developing, doesn't require installation in the traditional sense: https://github.com/xonixx/makesure#installation.

Also, I was considering adding the same feature (generating the equivalent shell script) to my tool, but after doing some analysis decided not to pursue this idea for the following reasons: https://github.com/xonixx/makesure/issues/83#issuecomment-98....

Another simple tool similar to this is makesure[1]. It’s written in shell so the idea is you include makesure itself in your repo, which avoids needing to install another tool to run commands on your project.

It’s very simple so isn’t good for everything, but works well as a simple command runner.

[1] https://github.com/xonixx/makesure

- mawk (https://invisible-island.net/mawk/) - bundled in some Linux distros (?), known as the fastest byte-code compiled implementation.

All three have very good compatibility, but Gawk is super-set over POSIX standard. I have some evidence here, since I regularly test [1] against these implementations and even some others, like GoAWK.

[1] https://github.com/xonixx/makesure/actions/runs/1830978431

I've been using make to do this for ages, but its syntax really shows its age in a bad way. A while ago I switched to just (https://github.com/casey/just), which is a simple command runner with less unnecessary cruft (for my use case as a command runner) and a much saner syntax, and I've been pretty happy with it so far, I hardly ever need to look up anything.

There's also task (https://taskfile.dev/), which is YAML-based and might work well in an environment where everything else is YAML anyway, and makesure (https://github.com/xonixx/makesure), which is pretty similar to just, but didn't really click with me.

yes, there is also https://github.com/xonixx/makesure - It is a simple task/command runner inspired by make with declarative goals and dependencies.

Idempotence is achievable elegantly with makesure tool [1] using @reached_if directive [2]. Full disclosure - I’m the author of the tool.

[1] https://github.com/xonixx/makesure

[2] https://github.com/xonixx/makesure#reached_if