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mHash for awk

By Mike Sanders on Wed Sep 27 01:56:23 2023

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Re: OT: Wow! ZOC!!

By Mike Sanders on Thu Sep 28 06:47:24 2023

Latest reply by Mike Sanders on Fri Sep 29 19:04:56 2023
djb2 hash using awk

By Michael Sanders on Fri Sep 22 12:50:09 2023

Latest reply by Michael Sanders on Wed Sep 27 11:13:21 2023
Re: Hardback - The AWK Programming Language 2nd Edition Inbox

By J Naman on Fri Sep 15 16:30:56 2023

Latest reply by J Naman on Fri Sep 15 16:30:56 2023
=?UTF-8?Q?The_AWK_book=E2=80=99s_60=2Dline_version_of_Make?=

By Ben Hoyt on Sun Sep 10 15:44:13 2023

Latest reply by Ben Hoyt on Mon Sep 11 09:59:32 2023
Nobody does that anymore... (Was: Simplify an AWK pipeline?)

By Kenny McCormack on Mon Aug 21 14:54:53 2023

Latest reply by Kenny McCormack on Mon Aug 21 19:04:17 2023
Simplify an AWK pipeline?

By Robert Mesibov on Wed Aug 16 16:48:57 2023

Latest reply by Robert Mesibov on Fri Aug 18 01:23:00 2023
Re: Learn, use, and debug AWK in Emacs.

By Hongyi Zhao on Sun Aug 6 06:52:50 2023

Latest reply by Hongyi Zhao on Sun Aug 6 18:10:18 2023
More "Awk in the news"

By nn m on Sat Aug 5 07:53:20 2023

Latest reply by nn m on Sat Aug 5 07:53:20 2023
The AWK Programming Language, 2nd Edition Early Release

By J Naman on Tue Aug 1 16:37:34 2023

Latest reply by jeorge on Thu Aug 3 07:12:15 2023
The Book - "The AWK Programming Language"

By Janis Papanagnou on Tue Aug 1 17:19:41 2023

Latest reply by Janis Papanagnou on Wed Aug 2 00:33:52 2023
Is it possible to NOT use identifiers named only with _'s?

By J Naman on Wed Mar 8 16:40:52 2023

Latest reply by Janis Papanagnou on Tue Aug 1 17:22:35 2023
writing a good gsub regexp for matching between two specific characters

By Bryan on Sat Mar 11 16:06:09 2023

Latest reply by Keith Thompson on Tue Aug 1 14:14:29 2023
Download WooCommerce Product Add-Ons

By Lazaros Gekas on Sun Jul 9 15:32:44 2023

Latest reply by Lazaros Gekas on Sun Jul 9 15:32:44 2023
cppawk now mentioned in GNU Awk manual.

By Kaz Kylheku on Sat Jun 10 05:54:56 2023

Latest reply by Kenny McCormack on Thu Jul 6 23:15:54 2023
Odd bug

By Mary Karr on Mon May 29 08:06:32 2023

Latest reply by Janis Papanagnou on Tue May 30 02:09:26 2023
Awk output redirection to expression - defined or not?

By Ed Morton on Thu May 25 09:30:53 2023

Latest reply by Janis Papanagnou on Sun May 28 18:12:33 2023
gawk "readdir" dynamic lib errors

By jeorge on Mon May 22 16:47:32 2023

Latest reply by jeorge on Wed May 24 13:02:12 2023
Gawk 5.2.2 released!

By Aharon Robbins on Sun May 14 17:04:57 2023

Latest reply by Aharon Robbins on Sun May 14 17:04:57 2023
Re: Anyone know how to contact http://awk.freeshell.org providers?

By jeorge on Wed May 3 10:07:29 2023

Latest reply by Ed Morton on Sun May 14 16:14:17 2023
Syntax of function calls without arguments?

By Janis Papanagnou on Thu May 11 04:19:16 2023

Latest reply by Ben Bacarisse on Fri May 12 01:46:38 2023
[ANN] (g)awk-csvio simple awk library

By Manuel Collado on Thu Apr 27 13:13:30 2023

Latest reply by Bruce Horrocks on Fri Apr 28 17:36:05 2023
FYI: Bard AI Coding and AWK

By J Naman on Mon Apr 24 18:11:13 2023

Latest reply by Janis Papanagnou on Tue Apr 25 09:02:02 2023
Beta release of GNU Awk 5.2.2

By Aharon Robbins on Thu Apr 20 17:12:44 2023

Latest reply by Aharon Robbins on Thu Apr 20 17:12:44 2023
Rounding question (gawk)

By Kenny McCormack on Fri Mar 17 11:20:51 2023

Latest reply by tTh on Sat Mar 18 13:33:52 2023
Re: approaches for reformatting data points into pairs

By Janis Papanagnou on Fri Mar 17 16:09:27 2023

Latest reply by Janis Papanagnou on Sat Mar 18 06:19:59 2023
Nice interview with Brian Kernighan on Youtube/Computerphile

By nn m on Wed Aug 17 20:40:39 2022

Latest reply by Bryan on Wed Mar 15 08:46:34 2023
Is it possible to convert strings to math operators?

By someone on Thu Feb 16 08:02:31 2023

Latest reply by Kpop 2GM on Wed Mar 8 12:44:44 2023
function() return VAR vs ..return $0

By someone on Mon Feb 20 10:50:01 2023

Latest reply by Kpop 2GM on Wed Mar 8 11:43:41 2023
translate without compiling

By scr.mlm@gmail.com on Mon Mar 6 01:54:25 2023

Latest reply by scr.mlm@gmail.com on Mon Mar 6 01:54:25 2023
[gawk] FP precision

By Janis Papanagnou on Fri Jan 20 10:56:19 2023

Latest reply by Kaz Kylheku on Sat Jan 21 08:33:35 2023
HackerNews: awk gets a little love in the sun (raycasting style)

By nn m on Thu Jan 19 19:18:16 2023

Latest reply by Janis Papanagnou on Fri Jan 20 10:58:08 2023
serial numbers as RS

By raj on Tue Jan 17 19:30:39 2023

Latest reply by Janis Papanagnou on Wed Jan 18 16:26:54 2023
Serial numbers as RS

By raj on Tue Jan 17 19:37:21 2023

Latest reply by raj on Tue Jan 17 19:37:21 2023
PROCINFO["pgrpid"]

By Kenny McCormack on Tue Dec 6 17:07:44 2022

Latest reply by Kenny McCormack on Wed Dec 7 07:44:01 2022
PROCINFO["pma_version"] eventually ???

By J Naman on Mon Dec 5 17:46:57 2022

Latest reply by Manuel Collado on Tue Dec 6 11:54:57 2022
gawk regexp question

By Kenny McCormack on Thu Dec 1 09:04:18 2022

Latest reply by Janis Papanagnou on Sun Dec 4 01:46:08 2022
Gawk 5.2.1 released

By Arnold Robbins on Thu Nov 24 17:17:38 2022

Latest reply by Arnold Robbins on Thu Nov 24 17:17:38 2022
Beta release of gawk 5.2.1

By Arnold Robbins on Tue Nov 15 07:31:32 2022

Latest reply by Arnold Robbins on Tue Nov 15 07:31:32 2022
is there a new TAWK 6.8 version ?

By Laurent MANCHON on Wed Oct 19 02:49:23 2022

Latest reply by Paul Anagnostopoulos on Wed Oct 19 15:00:47 2022
Difficulty to use sensible line breaks in expressions

By Janis Papanagnou on Wed Oct 12 16:13:59 2022

Latest reply by Janis Papanagnou on Wed Oct 12 23:24:34 2022
Gawk 5.2.0 released!

By Arnold Robbins on Sun Sep 4 18:20:09 2022

Latest reply by Janis Papanagnou on Tue Sep 6 01:59:50 2022
Announcement of beta for gawk 5.2.0 was posted

By Mack The Knife on Wed Aug 17 15:21:00 2022

Latest reply by Kenny McCormack on Thu Aug 18 15:16:35 2022
Re: Advice for new-ish player

By Igenlode Wordsmith on Sun Jul 31 20:31:01 2022

Latest reply by Janis Papanagnou on Thu Aug 4 12:57:29 2022
expressive iteration with macros

By Kaz Kylheku on Sun Apr 24 02:43:45 2022

Latest reply by Kpop 2GM on Thu Aug 4 01:02:00 2022
You should just follow my earlier advice to get and use Cygwin and its

By Kenny McCormack on Sun Jul 31 16:52:19 2022

Latest reply by Igenlode Wordsmith on Wed Aug 3 23:47:36 2022
What is in those 6 megs? (Was: gawk on Windows)

By Kenny McCormack on Mon Aug 1 19:41:27 2022

Latest reply by Igenlode Wordsmith on Tue Aug 2 12:12:25 2022
gawk on Windows

By Igenlode Wordsmith on Mon Jul 25 07:00:03 2022

Latest reply by Bruce Horrocks on Mon Aug 1 17:27:13 2022
Bitwise xor of two bytes does not work as I expected

By Mohsen Owzar on Thu Jul 14 23:46:30 2022

Latest reply by Janis Papanagnou on Wed Jul 27 23:30:46 2022
feature share : a more sensible approach to browsing binary files

By Kpop 2GM on Thu Jun 9 05:54:35 2022

Latest reply by Kpop 2GM on Thu Jun 9 05:54:35 2022
feature share : arbitrary-byte-safe array splitting in gawk-unicode mod

By Kpop 2GM on Sat Jun 4 00:49:55 2022

Latest reply by Kpop 2GM on Sat Jun 4 00:49:55 2022
Yet another obfuscated Awk code

By Janis Papanagnou on Sat Jan 22 11:07:38 2022

Latest reply by Janis Papanagnou on Sat May 28 14:43:11 2022
array v3.0 is released

By Digi on Sat Apr 2 06:10:38 2022

Latest reply by Kpop 2GM on Sat May 28 09:38:19 2022
New user here, being a bit of a showoff, hopefully not too spammy

By Patsie on Tue Mar 29 00:46:48 2022

Latest reply by Kpop 2GM on Sat May 28 04:43:57 2022
making 1.85 billion copies of "27" via gawk in 714 ms

By Kpop 2GM on Sat May 28 04:35:36 2022

Latest reply by Kpop 2GM on Sat May 28 04:35:36 2022
Difficulty in parsing 2-dimensional array

By solitary.wanderer52@gmail.com on Wed May 4 12:11:04 2022

Latest reply by solitary.wanderer52@gmail.com on Wed May 4 15:48:09 2022
Re: TAWK 5.0

By Kenneth Martin on Tue Oct 12 03:13:03 2021

Latest reply by Mack The Knife on Sun May 1 08:38:29 2022
number to binary / binary to number

By Digi on Sat Apr 16 05:49:06 2022

Latest reply by Kpop 2GM on Fri Apr 22 06:17:47 2022
array v3.1 is available

By Digi on Fri Apr 15 10:14:54 2022

Latest reply by Digi on Fri Apr 15 10:14:54 2022
egawk: Enhanced GNU Awk

By Kaz Kylheku on Wed Apr 13 01:50:56 2022

Latest reply by Ed Morton on Wed Apr 13 19:38:03 2022
Re: Retrieving limits in GNU Awk

By Kpop 2GM on Mon Mar 28 18:21:58 2022

Latest reply by Kpop 2GM on Wed Apr 13 05:15:13 2022
Discussing features (was Re: @include: helpful feature)

By Janis Papanagnou on Tue Apr 5 17:38:41 2022

Latest reply by Janis Papanagnou on Tue Apr 5 17:38:41 2022
Re: @include: helpful feature

By Ed Morton on Thu Mar 17 14:47:05 2022

Latest reply by Digi on Tue Apr 5 06:46:58 2022
cppawk: parallel/product iteration syntax.

By Kaz Kylheku on Wed Mar 30 19:18:44 2022

Latest reply by Kaz Kylheku on Wed Mar 30 23:19:57 2022
cppawk: portable case statement.

By Kaz Kylheku on Mon Mar 28 07:09:41 2022

Latest reply by Kenny McCormack on Tue Mar 29 12:27:04 2022
Gawk IGNORECASE=0 vs =1

By J Naman on Wed Feb 23 13:34:40 2022

Latest reply by Kpop 2GM on Mon Mar 28 12:59:03 2022
Re: what operation is $1.$2 ?

By Neil on Wed Mar 9 19:48:54 2022

Latest reply by Kpop 2GM on Mon Mar 28 11:53:09 2022
AWK Do not print the whole String

By Abdou B on Wed Mar 23 04:04:56 2022

Latest reply by Kpop 2GM on Mon Mar 28 11:47:19 2022
cppawk has some charms. :)

By Kaz Kylheku on Sat Mar 19 01:29:41 2022

Latest reply by Ed Morton on Mon Mar 28 07:12:18 2022
C preprocessor wrapper around awk.

By Kaz Kylheku on Thu Mar 17 21:41:36 2022

Latest reply by Janis Papanagnou on Wed Mar 23 12:37:30 2022
The Art of Unix Programming - Case Study: awk

By Janis Papanagnou on Sun Jan 30 22:02:40 2022

Latest reply by Kpop 2GM on Fri Mar 4 19:49:23 2022
awk functionality not in ksh93

By Axel Reichert on Thu Feb 17 21:24:59 2022

Latest reply by Axel Reichert on Tue Mar 1 20:32:25 2022
one-liner for auto-detection of awk variant

By Kpop 2GM on Tue Feb 22 11:42:44 2022

Latest reply by Janis Papanagnou on Wed Feb 23 14:07:15 2022
TAWK: The spawn() function

By Kenny McCormack on Mon Feb 21 12:12:20 2022

Latest reply by Kenny McCormack on Tue Feb 22 20:44:42 2022
GAWK documentation error: PROCINFO[command,"pty"]

By Kenny McCormack on Tue Feb 1 13:15:22 2022

Latest reply by Andrew Schorr on Wed Feb 2 16:10:12 2022
GAWK: Bug/mis-feature in arraymax.awk

By Kenny McCormack on Tue Jan 18 14:47:22 2022

Latest reply by Kaz Kylheku on Sat Jan 22 21:39:59 2022
obfuscated AWK code challenge

By RARE Kpop Manifesto on Sun Dec 26 18:53:52 2021

Latest reply by Kpop 2GM on Sat Jan 22 12:38:35 2022
Feature request (Attn: GAWK developers): Arbitrary args in GAWK?

By Kenny McCormack on Tue Jan 18 14:42:15 2022

Latest reply by Kenny McCormack on Tue Jan 18 14:42:15 2022
GAWK: Converting a number to a string (the hard way!) - Discuss!

By Kenny McCormack on Thu Jan 13 13:40:02 2022

Latest reply by Kpop 2GM on Mon Jan 17 02:37:43 2022
awkcc available, again

By Aharon Robbins on Sun Jan 9 19:29:01 2022

Latest reply by Aharon Robbins on Fri Jan 14 10:34:09 2022
@include useful features: PROCINFO[ "include" ] array

By Digi on Thu Jan 6 14:45:21 2022

Latest reply by Ed Morton on Thu Jan 6 17:27:18 2022
Re: Options to awk scripts

By Janis Papanagnou on Sun Dec 5 12:52:20 2021

Latest reply by Kenny McCormack on Tue Dec 14 00:12:42 2021
Gawk 5.1.1 released!

By Arnold Robbins on Thu Oct 28 18:45:22 2021

Latest reply by Arnold Robbins on Thu Oct 28 18:45:22 2021
Re: Sorting indices numerically

By Ed Morton on Mon Oct 25 11:41:04 2021

Latest reply by solitary.wanderer52@gmail.com on Mon Oct 25 14:03:28 2021
floating point: too many significant digits

By Laurent MANCHON on Thu Oct 7 05:24:12 2021

Latest reply by Laurent MANCHON on Sun Oct 10 23:48:57 2021
Thompson Tooklit

By Kenneth Martin on Sun Oct 10 13:20:48 2021

Latest reply by Kenneth Martin on Sun Oct 10 13:20:48 2021
A niggling bug in the GAWK parser

By Kenny McCormack on Tue Oct 5 16:27:54 2021

Latest reply by Ed Morton on Wed Oct 6 11:52:59 2021
Response to "Mack the Knife", re: whatever

By Kenny McCormack on Wed Oct 6 12:27:13 2021

Latest reply by Kenny McCormack on Wed Oct 6 12:27:13 2021
Copying files with generated filenames in a directory from inside teh A

By Mohsen Owzar on Mon Sep 20 20:33:15 2021

Latest reply by J Naman on Sun Sep 26 09:19:37 2021
Beta release of gawk 5.1.1

By Arnold Robbins on Sun Sep 19 10:22:21 2021

Latest reply by J Naman on Thu Sep 23 21:39:23 2021
GNU Awk source code package - public key to verify signature?

By Janis Papanagnou on Sat Sep 11 15:23:48 2021

Latest reply by pk on Sat Sep 11 19:51:32 2021
Nice article on awk by Andy Oram

By Aharon Robbins on Thu May 20 18:40:59 2021

Latest reply by Pankaj Jangid on Tue Sep 7 12:45:35 2021
[meta] Why? (was Re: why does patsplit() exist?)

By Janis Papanagnou on Mon Sep 6 18:14:32 2021

Latest reply by Janis Papanagnou on Mon Sep 6 18:14:32 2021
why does patsplit() exist?

By Ed Morton on Sat Apr 17 10:08:59 2021

Latest reply by Ed Morton on Mon Sep 6 12:16:09 2021
What is the Poisson "function" ??? (Was: Using math functions in Aw

By Janis Papanagnou on Sat Sep 4 17:02:57 2021

Latest reply by Bruce Horrocks on Sun Sep 5 01:22:13 2021
Using math functions in Awk

By Janis Papanagnou on Sat Sep 4 16:05:12 2021

Latest reply by Kenny McCormack on Sat Sep 4 14:28:52 2021
(GAWK) fatal: attempt to use scalar 'x' as an array

By Kenny McCormack on Thu Aug 12 10:54:12 2021

Latest reply by Aharon Robbins on Fri Aug 13 19:51:41 2021
Using SUBSEP; why? (Was: Use multi-dimensional arrays, Luke! (Was: asor

By Kenny McCormack on Thu Aug 12 17:09:59 2021

Latest reply by Laurent MANCHON on Fri Aug 13 09:24:56 2021
asort function

By Ed Morton on Wed Aug 11 09:30:23 2021

Latest reply by Ed Morton on Fri Aug 13 11:06:50 2021
Use multi-dimensional arrays, Luke! (Was: asort function)

By Kenny McCormack on Thu Aug 12 14:54:15 2021

Latest reply by Kenny McCormack on Thu Aug 12 16:23:16 2021
How to install gawkextlib?

By Peng Yu on Sun Aug 1 09:04:33 2021

Latest reply by Andrew Schorr on Mon Aug 2 17:33:54 2021
Handling DOS (Windows) text files in Unix (Linux) - a nifty extensi

By Ed Morton on Sun Aug 1 10:14:35 2021

Latest reply by Janis Papanagnou on Mon Aug 2 14:42:00 2021
(OT) Response to "Mack", in re: Input Parser to handle DOS text files

By Kenny McCormack on Sun Aug 1 19:23:31 2021

Latest reply by Kenny McCormack on Sun Aug 1 19:23:31 2021
Handling DOS (Windows) text files in Unix (Linux) - a nifty extension l

By Kenny McCormack on Sat Jul 31 14:17:32 2021

Latest reply by Kenny McCormack on Sat Jul 31 14:17:32 2021
ATTN: GAWK developers. I need help with writing an input filter extensi

By Kenny McCormack on Wed Jul 28 13:21:06 2021

Latest reply by Kenny McCormack on Thu Jul 29 00:53:11 2021
repeating the last record after meeting a condtion

By raj on Mon Jul 19 04:55:18 2021

Latest reply by Kenny McCormack on Mon Jul 19 13:39:19 2021
Convert CR LF to CR

By Spiros Bousbouras on Mon Jul 12 21:22:52 2021

Latest reply by Janis Papanagnou on Tue Jul 13 07:57:02 2021
Gawk mailing list changes

By Aharon Robbins on Fri Jul 2 08:27:54 2021

Latest reply by Aharon Robbins on Fri Jul 2 08:27:54 2021
zpsoli - Solitaire/Patience card game

By Russell Marks on Tue Jun 15 13:22:50 2021

Latest reply by Andreas Eder on Wed Jun 23 20:34:52 2021
/dev/stdin on an Event Stream

By Stephen on Fri Jun 11 22:33:57 2021

Latest reply by Ed Morton on Sat Jun 12 08:56:40 2021
TAWK lives...?

By Ed Morton on Thu Mar 25 09:33:32 2021

Latest reply by Dirk Jan van der Wijden on Sun May 30 05:41:13 2021
Geodetic Development Kit

By Fred Killet on Tue May 4 23:38:23 2021

Latest reply by Fred Killet on Tue May 4 23:38:23 2021
gsub() & Escaped characters in strings

By J Naman on Wed Apr 28 18:37:44 2021

Latest reply by Luuk on Thu Apr 29 21:19:51 2021
How to split input on \040 ?

By Janis Papanagnou on Sun Apr 25 12:00:17 2021

Latest reply by Janis Papanagnou on Mon Apr 26 16:17:50 2021
Is it a floor wax or a dessert topping? (Was: Is awk.info gone?)

By Kenny McCormack on Mon Mar 22 22:54:23 2021

Latest reply by igor__ on Sat Apr 10 08:51:32 2021
val_type_asc and val_str_asc

By Igenlode Wordsmith on Fri Apr 2 17:06:39 2021

Latest reply by Igenlode Wordsmith on Wed Apr 7 16:28:45 2021
Alfred Aho named joint recipient of 2020 ACM Turing Award

By Bruce Horrocks on Thu Apr 1 18:27:43 2021

Latest reply by Janis Papanagnou on Fri Apr 2 02:05:54 2021
generating an uids from character sets

By Digi on Wed Mar 31 11:20:25 2021

Latest reply by Digi on Wed Mar 31 11:20:25 2021
joining array's elements: the comprehensive solution

By Digi on Wed Mar 31 06:04:19 2021

Latest reply by Digi on Wed Mar 31 06:04:19 2021
empty an array

By Ed Morton on Mon Mar 29 14:57:23 2021

Latest reply by Laurent MANCHON on Mon Mar 29 12:35:41 2021
Is awk.info gone?

By Ed Morton on Fri Mar 19 11:30:01 2021

Latest reply by J Naman on Thu Mar 25 16:13:31 2021
Poll for examples: using length(array) in practice

By Janis Papanagnou on Fri Mar 5 16:45:30 2021

Latest reply by Janis Papanagnou on Tue Mar 23 00:51:03 2021
subsets of an array

By Janis Papanagnou on Tue Mar 23 00:45:06 2021

Latest reply by Tim Menzies on Mon Mar 22 15:14:58 2021
Finding POSIX standard updates for awk

By Ed Morton on Thu Mar 4 07:36:17 2021

Latest reply by Ed Morton on Mon Mar 8 15:50:21 2021
FIGLIO DI PUTTANA PAOLO BARRAI ("IL PEDOFILO DEL BITCOIN": COME LO

By Andreas Nigg Bank J Safra Sarasin Z on Fri Feb 26 03:27:29 2021

Latest reply by Andreas Nigg Bank J Safra Sarasin Z on Fri Feb 26 03:27:29 2021
GAWK Namespace Uses by Example

By J Naman on Wed Feb 24 14:38:03 2021

Latest reply by J Naman on Wed Feb 24 14:38:03 2021
GAWK printf strings to numbers seems inconsistent

By J Naman on Thu Feb 4 10:10:21 2021

Latest reply by Aharon Robbins on Mon Feb 8 05:47:19 2021
Print statements not appearing

By Ed Morton on Mon Feb 8 17:34:24 2021

Latest reply by solitary.wanderer52@gmail.com on Mon Feb 8 14:04:24 2021
GAWK: When can we set ARGC=1 ?

By Kenny McCormack on Fri Feb 5 01:57:32 2021

Latest reply by Aharon Robbins on Mon Feb 8 05:50:39 2021