Awk

Awk is a great scripting language: think of it as a simple, clean Perl. I was the danallen@microsoft.com who contributed a few build scripts to Brian Kernighan's one-true-awk. The official Awk website is here:

https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk

I have added a few more additions that I have not yet given Brian. This webpage has an Awk variant that has all of Kernighan's official sources, plus under #ifdef a few changes to improve Awk under MPW on the original Mac OS, such as a Commando interface shown here:

Download

• awk.exe - an executible tool for Win32 (Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP)
• awk - an MPW PowerPC native tool for use with Mac OS 9 or Classic under Mac OS X
• the full Kernighan sources (my changes can be seen by grepping for my initials of DKA) which build on Windows, Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Linux, or Unix.

To download this 268 KB archive, click here.

Sample Scripts

• addhex
• ascii
• gcpoints
• s2k

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Created:  27 Feb 2001
Modified: 14 Jul 2024