Inside the LAWKER room

X-windows GUI for AWK

2010-02-28T18:56:00.000-08:00

Michael Sanders demos an X-windows GUI for AWK.

Awk100#24: Patent search, in AWK

2010-02-28T18:43:00.000-08:00

Awk100#24: A. Lahm and E. de Rinaldis' patent search, in AWK

Awk cookbook project

2010-02-28T05:57:00.001-08:00

Tim Menzies asks this community to write an AWK cookbook.

New GAWK debugger

2010-02-27T21:06:00.000-08:00

Arnold Robbins announces a new debugger for GAWK.

Awk100#23: VitaminA (IRC in AWK)

2010-02-27T20:45:00.000-08:00

Awk100#23: Premysl Janouch offers a IRC bot, In AWK

Updated: AWK FAQ

2010-02-27T20:42:00.000-08:00

Updated: the AWK FAQ

Content management, in Awk.

2010-02-27T17:55:00.000-08:00

Tim Menzies offers a tiny content management system, in Awk.

Comment system added to keys2awk

2010-01-30T17:31:00.000-08:00

Comment system added to awk.info. For example, see discussion bottom of ?keys2awk

Massive strings (300 million characters) in Awk

2010-01-30T17:30:00.001-08:00

Martin Cohen shows that Gawk can handle massively long strings (300 million characters).

AWK FAQ being updated

2010-01-30T17:29:00.002-08:00

The AWK FAQ is being updated. For comments/ corrections/ extensions, please mail tim@menzies.us

Awk on Android

2010-01-30T17:29:00.000-08:00

Martin Cohen finds Awk on the Android platform.

New version of runawk

2010-01-30T17:28:00.001-08:00

Aleksey Cheusov released a new version of runawk.

New AWK mascot

2010-01-30T17:27:00.003-08:00

Hirofumi Saito contributes a candidate Awk mascot.

An AWK GUI for Windows

2010-01-30T17:27:00.001-08:00

Michael Sanders shows how to quickly build an AWK GUI for windows.

An embeddable Awk Interpreter

2010-01-30T17:26:00.001-08:00

Hyung-Hwan Chung offers QSE, an embeddable Awk Interpreter.

Network monitoring in AWK

2010-01-30T17:25:00.002-08:00

Grant Coady implements network monitoring, in Awk.

ROT-13 in Awk

2010-01-30T17:25:00.000-08:00

Michael Sanders shows how to do ROT-13 in awk.

How to include files in Gawk

2009-12-25T20:50:00.000-08:00

Arnold Robbins asks this community to comment on different methods to implement file inclusion in Gawk.

A web-server in Gawk

2009-12-25T20:49:00.000-08:00

Michael Sanders implements a web server, in very few lines, using Gawk.

How to join lines

2009-12-25T20:46:00.000-08:00

Ed Morton and Kenny McCormack show us Awk's equivalent to VI's "J" command.

Drawing Sierpinski Triangles

2009-12-25T20:45:00.000-08:00

Dan Nielsen shows us how to draw Sierpinski Triangles.

From code comments to Latex

2009-12-25T20:44:00.000-08:00

Peter Ivanyi and Roman Putanowicz generate Latex doco from program comments.

Sorting Gawk arrays, using the shell

2009-12-25T20:43:00.000-08:00

Debbie Forbes quickly sorts arrays.

An RSS reader in Gawk

2009-12-25T20:42:00.000-08:00

Tim Menzies offers an ultra-simple RSS reader.

SPAWK now for SuSE Linux

2009-12-25T20:39:00.000-08:00

Panos Papadopoulos ports SPAWK (SQL+AWK) to SuSE Linux.

Roadmap for Gawk.

2009-12-25T20:38:00.000-08:00

Arnold Robbins announces the roadmap for the next planned updates to Gawk.

XMLgawk for Windows

2009-12-25T20:37:00.000-08:00

Wim van Blitterswijk announces XMLgawk for Windows.

Awk.info now a top-20 website

2009-12-02T00:05:00.000-08:00

Awk.info now a top-20 website

Zork, in Awk

2009-12-02T00:02:00.000-08:00

Praveen Puri offers a Zork-clone, in Awk.

Sorting, in Awk

2009-12-01T12:03:00.000-08:00

Ed Morton sorts out everything (using Awk)

Smallest formatter, ever?

2009-12-01T12:02:00.000-08:00

Is this the smartest (smallest) formatter ever written?

Norvig's spell checker, in Awk

2009-11-30T12:02:00.000-08:00

Gregory Grefenstette implements Norvig's spell checker.

Edit distance between strings

2009-11-30T12:00:00.000-08:00

Pierre Gaston calculates the edit distance between strings.

An Info Bot clone

2009-11-29T12:00:00.001-08:00

Scott McCoy builds an Info Bot clone, in Awk.

Awk for Electrical Engineering

2009-11-29T11:59:00.000-08:00

Grant Coady calculate resistor pair values

Runawk 0.18 is released

2009-11-28T11:57:00.000-08:00

Aleksey Cheusov releases Runawk018

WHINY_USERS really does slow Awk

2009-11-28T11:56:00.000-08:00

Hermann Peifer shows that WHINY_USERS really does slow Awk.

The "I love Awk" coffee mug

2009-10-28T21:18:00.000-07:00

Zazzle.com is selling their new "I love Awk" mug.

Mawk runs faster than C, C++, Java, Perl, Ruby, ...

2009-10-27T21:16:00.000-07:00

Bredan O'Conner reports that, for at least one task, Mawk runs faster than C, C++, Java, Perl, Ruby,...

Speeding up Mawk, twenty times.

2009-10-26T21:14:00.000-07:00

J. Mellander shows how to run Mawk, 20 times faster.

Parallel Awk

2009-10-25T21:13:00.000-07:00

John David Duncan describes a parallel Awk implementation.

Zipf's Law and Awk

2009-10-24T21:12:00.000-07:00

John Fry proves Zipf's Law, in two lines of Awk.

Sed and Awk

2009-10-23T21:10:00.000-07:00

Ed Morton simplifies sed with awk (68 times).

New section: Sys Admin and Awk

2009-10-22T23:59:00.000-07:00

New section: Sys Admin and Awk

Awk to MySql

2009-10-22T21:09:00.000-07:00

Scott McCoy shows a simple Awk-to-MySql interface.

SysAdmin: Awk is your friend

2009-10-21T21:07:00.000-07:00

Brian Jones tells all Sys Admins: Awk is your friend.

Simpler sys log processing

2009-10-20T21:05:00.000-07:00

M0J0 simplifies sys log processing.

Gawk reference card (3.17)

2009-09-27T06:01:00.000-07:00

Arnold Robbins updates the Gawk reference card (to v3.17).

Gawk reference card (3.16)

2009-09-26T17:38:00.000-07:00

Ed Morton contributes a Gawk reference card (v3.16).

New release of Runawk, 0.17

2009-09-25T17:36:00.000-07:00

Aleksey Cheusov releases Runawk 0.17

Awk++ released (version 21)

2009-09-24T17:34:00.000-07:00

Jim Hart releases Awk++ (version 21)

A new Awk mascot?

2009-09-23T17:32:00.000-07:00

Panos Papadopoulos offers a new Awk Mascot (very scary)

Awk for Ethiopian multiplication

2009-09-22T17:29:00.000-07:00

Awk for Ethiopian multiplication

The Secrete WHINY_USERS flag

2009-09-21T17:28:00.000-07:00

Ed Morton reveals all about WHINY_USERS

Bitmap manipulation

2009-09-20T17:26:00.000-07:00

Ted Davis generalizes his bitmap tools.

A tale of two TAWKs

2009-09-19T17:25:00.000-07:00

TAWK= TinyAwk or a fast++ compiled Awk

Interview with Aharon Robbins

2009-08-28T20:55:00.000-07:00

Interview with Aharon Robbins.

Spawk (SQL+Awk) moves to GoogleCode

2009-08-28T20:49:00.000-07:00

Panos Papadopoulos has moved Spawk (SQL+AWK) to GoogleCode.

Printing ranges within an input file

2009-08-27T20:46:00.000-07:00

Ed Morton shows how to print ranges within an input file.

Using header names to reference column data

2009-08-26T20:44:00.000-07:00

Janis Papanagnou shows how to use header names to reference column data.

How to call Awk from "C" (using libmawk)

2009-08-24T20:41:00.000-07:00

Tibor Palinkas shows how to embed Awk inside "C".

Patch #7 to Gawk 3.1 is now Available.

2009-07-30T18:26:00.000-07:00

Arnold Robbins announces patch #7 to GNU Awk 3.1.

NoSQL

2009-07-30T18:23:00.000-07:00

Carlo Strozzi describes his NoSQL system.

Processing Binary (BMP) files in Gawk

2009-07-30T18:02:00.000-07:00

Ted Davis processes bitmaps in Gawk.

New section: Awk and Databases

2009-07-30T01:31:00.002-07:00

New section: Awk and Databases

New section: program verification and Awk

2009-07-30T01:31:00.001-07:00

New section: program verification and Awk

An AWK Debugger and Assertion Checker

2009-07-30T01:29:00.000-07:00

Mikhail Auguston (and friends) offer an Awk debugger and assertion checker.

MicroTracer: program verification in Awk

2009-07-30T01:27:00.000-07:00

Gerard Holzmann verifies programs using Awk

Awk (and TEX) for quick and dirty databases

2009-07-29T22:30:00.000-07:00

Erich Neuwirth uses Awk (and TEX) for Quick and Dirty Databases.

SQL Powered AWK

2009-07-29T22:03:00.000-07:00

Panos Papadopoulos adds SQL to AWK.

New Markdown Pre-processor

2009-07-29T21:45:00.000-07:00

Jesus Galan updates his Markdown system.

New Awk mascot: 'AWK-eye the dwarf?

2009-07-29T15:20:00.000-07:00

Dick L. proposes a new Awk mascot: 'AWK-eye the hard working dwarf.

Plain old Awk for Databases

2009-07-28T22:46:00.000-07:00

Victor Alvarado uses standard Awk for databases.

Finite State Machine Generator

2009-07-08T20:30:00.000-07:00

Wm Miller's finite state machine generator (in Awk).

Automated Result Verification with Awk

2009-07-07T19:21:00.000-07:00

Bakar and Janowski use Awk for automated result verification.

Random Numbers in Gawk

2009-07-05T05:47:00.000-07:00

How to seed random numbers in Gawk

Awk's Regular Expressions are Very Fast

2009-07-01T09:54:00.000-07:00

Russ Cox explains why regular expressions are so much faster in Awk.

XML parsing, in standard AWK

2009-06-21T20:31:00.000-07:00

Steve Coile's XML parser (uses off-the-shelf Awk).

Visual Awk

2009-06-20T19:39:00.000-07:00

Landauer and Hirakaw use Awk for Programming-by-Demonstration

Date manipulation

2009-06-06T22:45:00.000-07:00

Bob Orlando's date manipulation routines.

New section: Awk and Music

2009-06-06T18:59:00.000-07:00

New section: Awk and Music

An Awk music player

2009-06-06T06:56:00.000-07:00

Awk100#22: Stephen Jungels' music player

The Humdrum Music Analysis toolkit

2009-06-05T06:54:00.000-07:00

David Huron's Humdrum music analysis toolkit

XML: dealing with DTDs

2009-06-04T06:48:00.000-07:00

XML: dealing with DTDs.

New section: Awk for Engineering

2009-06-02T08:58:00.000-07:00

New section: Awk for engineering

Awk for Mechanical Engineers

2009-06-02T08:57:00.000-07:00

David Leo's mechanical engineering library.

Awk for Chemical Engineers

2009-06-01T12:36:00.001-07:00

Eiso Ab's chemical engineering library.

Fast shuffling of a list

2009-05-31T19:29:00.000-07:00

Tim Menzies' fast random shuffle of array contents.

XML: pulling our data

2009-05-30T21:42:00.001-07:00

Pulling out data from an XML file.

Lexical and Grammar Analysis

2009-05-30T17:52:00.000-07:00

Yasumasa Someya's tools for natural language analysis.

Not-so-Naive Bayes Classifier

2009-05-29T14:56:00.001-07:00

Tim Menzies' not-so-Naive Bayes Classifier

Awk100#21: Jawk = Awk in Java

2009-05-28T08:51:00.000-07:00

Awk100#21: Jawk = Awk in Java

XML: outline generator

2009-05-27T05:05:00.000-07:00

XML outline generator.

UML diagram generator

2009-05-26T17:03:00.000-07:00

Martin Fink's UML diagram generator

Aaron Hawley's checkers program

2009-05-24T17:01:00.000-07:00

Aaron Hawley's checkers program

New in Awk: fast array loading

2009-05-22T17:00:00.000-07:00

New in Awk: fast array loading

Spread sheet access in Awk

2009-05-20T16:57:00.000-07:00

Spread sheet access in Awk

Template-driven programming in Awk

2009-05-18T04:55:00.000-07:00

Template-driven programming in Awk

QTawk

2009-05-16T16:22:00.000-07:00

Terry D. Boldt's QTawk tool

Tic-tac-toe

2009-05-14T16:17:00.000-07:00

Aaron Hawley's Tic-Tac-Toe code.