Awk for RISC OS
Awk for RISC OS
Whether or not you consider yourself a programmer, the very
fact that you use Risc OS suggests that you are probably an
active user of your computer, and hence that you are
likely to find Awk a useful tool. The name is
an acronym of its original inventors, Aho, Weinberger and Kernighan. The original version of Awk was created in 1977 at AT&T Bell Laboratories, as a tool for
extracting information from text. It was intended
for relatively simple tasks that could be described in a
couple of lines. Its simplicity made it so popular that
people tried to use it for more ambitious tasks, and this
led to a major revision in 1985, extending its capabilities
to that of a fully-fledged programming language without
sacrifice of its simplicity. It is now a standard part of
every Unix distribution.
on the smarticon bar. See Scripts and StrongED for more details.
Mawk v.1.3.3 is a fast version of awk released by Mike Brennan under
the GPL. Sources are available from ftp.whidbey.net in ~/pub/brennan.
Read what a Professor of AI has to say about Awk