busybox-w32
awk
busybox-w32 | awk | |
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640 | 5 | |
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9.2 | 10.0 | |
5 days ago | about 8 years ago | |
C | Awk | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | - |
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busybox-w32
- The Awk Programming Language, Second Edition
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POSIX sh is a better interpreter than python
Even in environments such as win32, we have https://frippery.org/busybox/ that is just fucking awesome. Staying the size below an 1mb while being extremely fast. Unlike the shitty python package which has 40mb archive size and leave breadcrumbs for me to cleanup all over my filesystem.
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The amount of times I have accidentally done this...
Win32 port is here: https://frippery.org/busybox/
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God's developer console
Look into busybox for windows https://frippery.org/busybox/. Pretty bad ass even with it’s downsides of missing applets and such
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Does vim suck on windows?
Vim by itself means no supporting unix environment. It's useful to call out to powerful external tools not present by default on Windows. I fill that gap with busybox-w32. It's not a big deal once solved.
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looking for a graphics library
Sure, it's not necessary, but a few simple, nice tools (<600kiB for an entire suite of extended unix utilities) makes thing a whole lot simpler on a platform devoid of nice tools.
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Compress lots of files into lots of individual files?
To operate on many files you'll need better tools than what Windows gives you. One option is busybox-w32 (important caveat: doesn't support unicode paths), which will get you some basic command line tools. For example, to gzip compress every file under the current directory, including subdirectories (leaving the originals behind with -k):
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Windows verison of cal
busybox-w32 includes a cal applet. If that's all you care about, you can just rename busybox.exe to cal.exe.
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What's in your tool belt?
busybox-w32: standard unix utilities for Windows. It's a BusyBox port.
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Makefile example project for Windows with source, include, libs and build folders. Also with a detailed explanation!
IHMO, even better is to just use POSIX sh in your Makefile and simply make it a build requirement. It's easy to obtain a reasonable sh even on Windows (Cygwin, MSYS2, busybox-w32), and to further support exactly this I include sh alongside make in my development kit distribution. This uniformity lets me hit all operating systems with the same Makefile. I use EXE from the environment to determine the binary file extension, if any.
awk
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Awk: Power and Promise of a 40 yr old language (2021)
Yep, functions! I used to write a fair amount of Awk code back in the late '80s and early '90s. I treated Awk as a "real" programming language and tried to make the code nice and readable. This of course involved a lot of use of functions.
I only have a couple of surviving examples of the code from back then, but here they are for the curious:
https://github.com/geary/awk
LJPII.AWK is probably the best example. It made a nicely formatted printout of source code on my HP LaserJet II printer. I wish I had one of the printouts it generated, but they are long gone.
Hmm... I wonder if my Brother printer supports the old LaserJet II control codes? Or maybe there is an emulator online?
The code was written for Thompson Awk (TAWK), so some bits would need to be adapted to modern Awks.
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Understanding Awk
I used to love Awk! I still do, even if I don't use it much any more.
Awk has a reputation for being hard to read (as noted in stevebmark's comment), but when I was using it actively, I tried to treat it as a serious programming language and write readable programs in it.
Several years ago I tracked down a couple of my old Awk programs from around 1990 and posted them here:
https://github.com/geary/awk
SHANEY.AWK is an implementation of the infamous Mark V. Shaney:
https://www.clear.rice.edu/comp200/09fall/textriff/sci_am_pa...
This was probably the first program that made me really impressed with Awk. People were writing rather complicated Shaney implementations in C, and I thought, "this could be really simple in Awk." And it was!
LJPII.AWK is the Awk program I'm most proud of. This was in the days when we had tiny screens and no multiple monitors and you always printed out your code to read it. In my circles we also fond of inserting "separator lines" between functions, in various formats such as this one:
// - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
What are some alternatives?
homebrew-emacs-plus - Emacs Plus formulae for the Homebrew package manager
Awk-Batteries - Public AWK Directory
notty - A new kind of terminal
csvquote - Enables common unix utlities like cut, awk, wc, head to work correctly with csv data containing delimiters and newlines
oursh - Your comrade through the perilous world of UNIX.
postgres - Docker Official Image packaging for Postgres
csvinfo - A small util to show max column lengths for a passed CSV file.
frawk - an efficient awk-like language
crosh - Minimal CROss-platform SHell (WIP, code is not real yet)
bashbrew - Canonical build tool for the official images