Unix legend Brian Kernighan, who owes us nothing, keeps fixing foundational AWK code | Co-creator of core Unix utility "awk" (he's the "k" in "awk"), now 80, just needs to run a few more tests on adding Unicode support

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  • WLang

    Discontinued The authoritative source for W Programming Language tools

  • But like, fyi, there is actually a W language because of course there is: https://github.com/wessupermare/WLang

  • learn_gnuawk

    Example based guide to mastering GNU awk

  • I wrote a book for GNU awk one-liners with plenty of examples and exercises. Free to read here: https://learnbyexample.github.io/learn_gnuawk/

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  • magit

    It's Magit! A Git Porcelain inside Emacs.

  • Have you heard of https://magit.vc ?

  • rhawk

    IRC bot written in GNU Awk

  • A guy I knew in college implemented Spades in AWK, and it frightens me: https://github.com/Andy753421/rhawk/blob/master/spades.awk

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