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Open up a terminal on Linux, OSX, or heck even Cygwin or MinGW on Windows. I'm willing to bet that awk is already pre-installed, even on a base or fresh install
by npsimons 14y ago
Open up a terminal on Linux, OSX, or heck even Cygwin or MinGW on Windows. I'm willing to bet that awk is already pre-installed, even on a base or fresh install. Awk, like grep, sed and all the rest are pretty standard and very powerful. Not knocking Python, shell programming is just another paradigm, and the tools are pretty universally available.
- dredmorbius 14y agoAwk is part of the POSIX specification, so yes, it's going to be present on pretty much any Unix-like environment. Even those which don't aim at POSIX compliance will almost certainly have an awk interpreter. Busybox includes one, which means that many minimal / embedded systems will include awk by default (as they use busybox to provide core utilities).