From megalith!errors@uunet.uu.net Mon Jun 20 03:37:04 1994 Received: from daffodil.cs.ucdavis.edu by toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.5) id AA04370; Mon, 20 Jun 94 03:37:02 PDT Received: from relay3.UU.NET by daffodil.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.5) id AA22376; Mon, 20 Jun 94 03:31:45 PDT Received: from uucp5.uu.net by relay3.UU.NET with SMTP (rama) id QQwvcb22310; Mon, 20 Jun 1994 06:29:47 -0400 Received: from megalith.UUCP by uucp5.uu.net with UUCP/RMAIL ; Mon, 20 Jun 1994 06:29:49 -0400 Received: by megalith.miami.fl.us (V1.16.20/w5, Dec 29 1993, 21:22:55) id <1oc3@megalith.miami.fl.us>; Mon, 20 Jun 94 02:34:36 EDT -0400 Sender: overlord@megalith.miami.fl.us Errors-To: errors@megalith.miami.fl.us Warnings-To: errors@megalith.miami.fl.us Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Reply-To: torsten@diku.dk (Torsten Poulin) Message-Number: 861 Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.announce X-Newssoftware: CSAA NMS 1.2 Message-Id: Date: Mon, 20 Jun 1994 02:34:34 -0400 (EDT) From: torsten@diku.dk (Torsten Poulin) (CSAA) To: announce@cs.ucdavis.edu (CSAA-Submissions) Subject: (CSAA) Awk for Amiga Status: RO TITLE AT&T awk VERSION Amiga port v1.0 of AT&T source dated April 22, 1994 (no, its author(s) didn't give it a version number). AUTHOR Written by AT&T. Amiga port by Torsten Poulin (torsten@diku.dk). DESCRIPTION awk is a pattern-directed scanning and processing language described in A.V. Aho et al., "The AWK Programming Language", Addison-Wesley, 1988. It makes it possible to handle tasks like changing the format of data, printing reports, finding items with some property, and adding up numbers with very short programs, often only one or two lines long. An awk program is a sequence of patterns and actions that tell what to look for in the input data and what to do when it is found. The patterns can select lines with regular expressions, comparison operations on fields, variables, strings, etc. or a combination thereof. The actions, which look a lot like C without declarations, may perform arbitrary processing on the selected data. Programs written in awk are generally much smaller than they would be in a conventional imperative programming language like C. Being terse makes awk quite useful for prototyping larger programs, too. This is a fully functional version of awk as described in the aforementioned book. This means that everything works, including "internal" pipes. In addition, AmigaDOS patterns can be used on the command line. Compiled with SAS/C 6.51. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS The program runs under all versions of AmigaDOS. If you run AmigaDOS 1.x and have arp.library installed, it will be used for expanding patterns on the commandline. It is not a requirement, though. Under 2.x or 3.x, dos.library handles the expansion. HOST NAME Available on Aminet, e.g., ftp.luth.se (130.240.18.2). DIRECTORY /pub/aminet/util/cli FILE NAME ATT-awk-1_0.lha (158288 bytes) PRICE Free! DISTRIBUTABILITY Copyright (C) AT&T 1993 All Rights Reserved Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted ... [etc., please refer to the documentation accompanying the program]. -- Read all administrative posts before putting your post up. Mailing list: announce-request@cs.ucdavis.edu. Comments to CSAA@megalith.miami.fl.us. MAIL ALL COMP.SYS.AMIGA.ANNOUNCE ANNOUNCEMENTS TO announce@cs.ucdavis.edu. ============================================================================ This is part of a mailing list gateway maintained by Carlos Amezaga. Bugs & comments to CSAA@megalith.miami.fl.us. Subscribes, UnSubcribes, help and faq requests should be sent to announce-request@cs.ucdavis.edu.