awk field separator

Arnold D. Robbins arnold at infographix.infographix.com
Fri Feb 23 10:32:48 EST 1996


> > Using a modern awk (nawk, gawk, mawk), FS can be any regular expression.
> 
> Not to sound to ignorant, but what is mawk?

Another, rather spiffy, posix awk implementation, written by a rather
nice guy named Michael Brennan. Available via ftp from oxy.edu in an obvious
place, although I don't remember the exact path.

Mawk is quite solid and very fast, although somewhat less featureful
than gawk.

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