Article 53P05 [$] The state of the AWK

[$] The state of the AWK

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corbet
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AWK is a text-processing language with a history spanning more than 40years. It has a POSIXstandard, several conforming implementations, and is still surprisingly relevant in 2020 - both for simple text processing tasks and for wrangling "big data". Therecentreleaseof GNU Awk 5.1 seems like a good reason to survey the AWK landscape, seewhat GNU Awk has been up to, and look at where AWK is being used these days.
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