Awk: Power and Promise of a 40 yr old language (2021)

• frawk

  26 1,223 6.4 Rust

  an efficient awk-like language

It does, just go to the "Benchmarks" link: https://github.com/ezrosent/frawk/blob/master/info/performan...

• bashbrew

  1 119 7.0 Go

  Canonical build tool for the official images

  

GNU awk and jq are at the heart of the templating engine used by a number of Docker Official Images:

https://github.com/docker-library/bashbrew/blob/master/scrip...

https://github.com/docker-library/postgres/blob/master/apply...

https://github.com/docker-library/postgres/blob/master/Docke...

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• postgres

  29 2,081 7.8 Shell

  Docker Official Image packaging for Postgres (by docker-library)

  

GNU awk and jq are at the heart of the templating engine used by a number of Docker Official Images:

https://github.com/docker-library/bashbrew/blob/master/scrip...

https://github.com/docker-library/postgres/blob/master/apply...

https://github.com/docker-library/postgres/blob/master/Docke...

• awk

  2 5 10.0 Awk

  Random AWK code (by geary)

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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