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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: 24 Jun 89 03:36:10 GMT
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In article <41884@bbn.COM> cosell@BBN.COM (Bernie Cosell) writes:
}In article <1879@leah.Albany.Edu> ms361@leah.Albany.Edu (Mark Steinberger) writes:
}}Has anyone attempted a port of awk to the amiga?

} 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.

AARGH!!!   I meant "...switch to *perl*"  As a bit of further emphasis,
I might mention that I went down the same path that you were
suggesting: I am a quite wizardly Unix shell hacker... I can make sed
and awk and grep and find ...  stand up and beg if need be.  I found it
VERY awkward and difficult to do even simple things on the amiga.  I
first wanted a full Bourne-shell compatible shell for the Amiga.  Then
I realized that to get that shell to do anything I'd need a whole
potload of satellite utilities.  And then I checked out perl and in one
swoop I've got virtually ALL of the capabilities that I really need
without having to add a dozen different programs to my Amy.  I've done
a small handful of "perl utilities" now and it is all working out
pretty well!  It is not perfect, because the process-control stuff was
NOT ported, so you can't do the equivalent of the Unix stdio "system()"
call and other, similar, things.  But still it is *damn* useful.

  /Bernie\