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by tannhaeuser 1083 days ago
What are you talking about? There is no POSIX awk implementation, just a language spec and nawk AKA the one true awk. As shipped on Mac OS, whereas Debian ships mawk in addition to gawk. gawk is just much slower and unfortunately also buggy (crashes on a non-"C" locale with complex regexpes).
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kristopolous 1083 days ago
Right, "the one true awk" corresponds to a book written in 1988, very explicity. https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk

I was incorrect about 30 years. It's actually 35.

You were the one that that said POSIX awk to begin with, I was using your terms. I understand what you meant, why don't you?

As far as shitting on the GMU tools, I don't think I've seen someone do that in decades, especially just referencing the bottom of the man page like that.

As far as speed, I don't know how you're using these tools, but if gawk is your bottleneck and not i/o, there's probably smarter ways to do things.

This is not a productive conversation. You can live life however you want and if you're happy than I'm happy. We are definitely at an impasse. I'm off to bed.

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