[TUHS] The AWK Programming Language, 2nd Ed.: What's new?

[KenUnix]

Yes. I normally keep quiet but what does transgender flags have to do with
AWK or Unix??

Let's at least stay with what the purpose of this group is.

-Ken


On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 11:54 PM <arnold at skeeve.com> wrote:

> This is getting off-topic, folks...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Arnold
>
> Ajay Shah <ajayshah at mayin.org> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 15 Sept 2023 at 07:10, Mary Ann Horton <mah at mhorton.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Which Git repo?  The CSV code is a game changer for awk, otherwise I
> need
> > > a hokey python script.
> > >
> > Me too!
> >
> > > Is it being merged into the Gnu awk that will wind up in Red Hat awk?
> > > Please please?
> > >
> > Debian is an important distribution in this regard, which may go into
> many
> > other distros like Ubuntu. I just looked in Debian stable --
> >
> > $ apt-cache show original-awk
> > Package: original-awk
> > Version: 2022-09-12-1
> > Installed-Size: 186
> > Maintainer: Santiago Vila <sanvila at debian.org>
> > Architecture: amd64
> > Provides: awk
> > Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34)
> > Description-en: The original awk described in "The AWK Programming
> Language"
> >  This is the version of awk described in "The AWK Programming Language",
> >  by Al Aho, Brian Kernighan, and Peter Weinberger
> >  (Addison-Wesley, 1988, ISBN 0-201-07981-X).
> > Description-md5: 7a3c565b081bc0f03d9e79a6fd87fe27
> > Multi-Arch: foreign
> > Homepage: https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk
> > Tag: devel::interpreter, implemented-in::c, interface::commandline,
> >  role::program, scope::utility, use::filtering, use::scanning,
> >  works-with::text
> > Section: interpreters
> > Priority: optional
> > Filename: pool/main/o/original-awk/original-awk_2022-09-12-1_amd64.deb
> > Size: 86548
> > MD5sum: f5a128040710433c276d866038703051
> > SHA256: f1835f1e5aca2f69e0b997b285b33b45aaa1abf4071edfd7481149076ca80a63
> >
> > The key URLs are
> >   https://packages.debian.org/sid/original-awk
> >   https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk
> >   sanvila at debian.org
> >
> > --
> > Ajay Shah
> > ajayshah at mayin.org
> > http://www.mayin.org/ajayshah
>


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