awk.exe

awk.exe Last edited 2013-05-27 23:57:16 PDT
The first is from Dr. Kernighan - the k of awk.
gawk has extensive extensions; great debugging tools;
and has MPFR for extended precision calculations.
mawk is sometimes much faster than all the above.

awk95.exe version 20070501
from: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/btl.mirror/index.html
(compiled with Microsoft Visual C++)
awk(1) page: http://www2.research.att.com/~gsf/man/man1/awk.html
book: The AWK Programming Language
errata: errata.html
for additions/changes since the awk book see:
http://awk.freeshell.org/FIXES

awk64.exe version 20110810
(code from above site; 64 bit version)
(compiled with Mingw-w64)
from: http://scottn.us/downloads/
file: http://scottn.us/downloads/awk64.exe

gawk.exe version 4.1.0
(compiled with mingw)
from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/
(requires the four .dll files included in the .zip download)
from: http://www.klabaster.com/freeware.htm
(klabaster version has no MPFR)
docs: http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/
book: Effective awk Programming by AD Robbins
(450 page exposé of gawk/awk/mawk)

mawk.exe version 1.3.4 (file date 2011-05-21)
(compiled with Microsoft Visual C++)
(system() does not work - but pipes are fine)
from: http://invisible-island.net/mawk/
file: ftp://invisible-island.net/mawk/win32/mawk-vs6.zip
64bit: ftp://invisible-island.net/mawk/win32/mingw64-20121209.zip
(neither system() nor pipes seem to work)
docs: http://invisible-island.net/mawk/manpage/mawk.html
changes: http://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES
see also: http://awk.freeshell.org/mawk_wish_list

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