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Re:The Awk Programming Language, Second Edition by snitty on Thursday June 29, 2023 @07:21AM (#36518958)
DSL == Domain Specific Language?
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Re:The Awk Programming Language, Second Edition by Rediscover on Thursday June 29, 2023 @07:33AM (#36519048)
Yes
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Re:The Awk Programming Language, Second Edition by coliveira on Thursday June 29, 2023 @08:47AM (#36519661)
One simple thing I do with awk is to create a command processor: read one line at a time and do things on my data as a response. This is very useful because you can make your command as powerful as needed and call other unix tools as a result.
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Re:The Awk Programming Language, Second Edition by rsolva on Thursday June 29, 2023 @11:44AM (#36522004)
Do you have an example of this that is available somewhere?
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