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frawk
- Frawk: An efficient Awk-like programming language
- Frawk: An efficient Awk-like programming language. (2021)
- The Awk Programming Language, Second Edition
- The State of the Awk (2020)
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Awk: Power and Promise of a 40 yr old language (2021)
It does, just go to the "Benchmarks" link: https://github.com/ezrosent/frawk/blob/master/info/performan...
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What's the software you couldn't live without?
and frawk for good measure
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What is yay situation?
frawk ["frawk" in aur] - a fancier awk with support for CSV files
- Fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
- Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster
- Frank
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?
clojure-rust-graalvm - An example of Clojure program calling a Rust library, all combined into one executable using GraalVM.
busybox-w32 - WIN32 native port of BusyBox.
awka - Revive awka - Awk to C Compiler
Awk-Batteries - Public AWK Directory
pawk - PAWK - A Python line processor (like AWK)
csvquote - Enables common unix utlities like cut, awk, wc, head to work correctly with csv data containing delimiters and newlines
awk - One true awk
postgres - Docker Official Image packaging for Postgres
tui-rs - Build terminal user interfaces and dashboards using Rust
csvinfo - A small util to show max column lengths for a passed CSV file.
makesure - Simple task/command runner with declarative goals and dependencies
bashbrew - Canonical build tool for the official images