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

[arnold at skeeve.com]

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