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by anthk 982 days ago
awk can do much more than sed. And, with patience, you could even write a Z-machine interpreter on it as some guy did with postscript. You might have to convert the binary input to hex first with xxd/od in order to parse the opcodes in a nice way, but everything else would be simulated from awk.
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> You might have to convert the binary input to hex first

If you're okay with gawk, most implementations ship with gawkextlib, which has readfile(), and you also have FIELDWIDTHS.