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  • Re: Feature which every AWK should have?

    From anthk@anthk@openbsd.home to comp.lang.awk on Mon Mar 24 21:31:32 2025
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    On 2024-07-17, yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> wrote:
    * I think GAWK's -E and MAWK's -We really makes scripts more robust.

    * Bit ops (shifts, and/or/xor) as seen in the BSD branch of Onetrueawk.


    getchar, as the function from tgl.awk, but without calling od.

    git://git.luxferre.top/awk-gold-collection.git

    clone the repo recursively.
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  • From anthk@anthk@openbsd.home to comp.lang.awk on Mon Mar 24 21:31:33 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.awk

    On 2024-07-17, yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> wrote:
    * I think GAWK's -E and MAWK's -We really makes scripts more robust.

    * Bit ops (shifts, and/or/xor) as seen in the BSD branch of Onetrueawk.


    getchar, as from tgl.awk at git://git.luxferre.top/awk-gold-collection.git

    But with od, native. Or by reusing awk functions.
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