[TUHS] Another awk version is now available
Aharon Robbins via TUHS
tuhs at tuhs.org
Fri Sep 25 00:52:57 AEST 2026
If anyone wants to have Yet Another Awk Version available for their
testing: https://github.com/arnoldrobbins/mksawk
This awk was originally written by Mortice Kern Systems in the 80s
sometime. Solaris adopted it for their POSIX awk, and it was released
with OpenSolaris.
I took this code from Illumos and made the minimal changes to get it
to build without errors. It passes a "hello, world" smoke test,
including handling Unicode multibyte characters.
I'll probably arrange to announce this on comp.lang.awk sometime soon.
I originally did this like in 2006, and decided to start over with
the current code before publishing it on github.
Arnold
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