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From: cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: More wishes: how about a port of awk?
Keywords: shell programming
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Date: 23 Jun 89 05:23:40 GMT
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In article <1879@leah.Albany.Edu> ms361@leah.Albany.Edu (Mark Steinberger) writes:
}Has anyone attempted a port of awk to the amiga? It would be 
}a wonderful move toward compatibility between UNIX and Amiga
}scripts, opening up a host of easy ports. It should also seriously
}strengthen the capablities of Amiga shell scripts.

Well, I'm not so sure that working toward such a compatibility is all that
noble a goal, but if a better scripting language is what you're after, you
might consider ditching awk and sed and friends entirely and just switch to
awk.  Available on both the Amiga and your favorite friendly Unix, and mostly
replaces the need to have a bunch of support programs hovering around your
shell doing all the things it can't (like awk, sed, grep, tr, etc...).

  /Bernie\