Be careful using unknown software
and software with strange origin
because of virus infection and trojan horses!

Vorsicht bei unbekannter Software
und bei Software unbekannter Herkunft
vor Viren und trojanischen Pferden!

Because nobody can predict what happens to the data on the way from the server to your hard drive, I advise to check this tools at once with an updated virus scanner before the first "run".

Da ich nicht vorhersagen kann, was auf dem Weg des Downloaden vom Server bis zur Speicherung auf der Platte alles mit dieser Software geschieht, rate ich dringend, vor dem ersten "run" dieser Tools einen Virencheck mit einem aktuellen Virenscanner durchzuführen.

Please inform me immediately when your virus check gets suspicious results so I can avoid possibly damage.

Sollte beim Viren-Check etwas auffälliges festgestellt werden, bitte ich um sofortige Benachrichtigung, damit ich etwas dagegen unternehmen kann.

Usage of these tools is fully in your responsibility and there is no warranty at all!

Die Benutzung der Tools geschieht auf eigene Verantwortung und es gibt
keine Garantie!

mawk / mawk.exe for Win32

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Windows 32-bit version of Dr. Michael ("Mike") D. Brennan's ultrafast implementation of the famous and easy-to-learn pattern processing language interpreter including

• speed optimized special version of mawk.exe running on the Windows 32 bit command line interface,
• a detailed (N)AWK language reference manual,
• a mawk user manual.

MAWK32 is extremely useful for intensive processing of large files because this 32-bit mawk.exe implementation is remarkably faster than GNU AWK (gawk.exe) implementation(s) and Perl scripts or even AWK scripts running at Brian W. Kernighan's original awk95.exe (20100208)!

AWKA for MingW32 (Win32), version 0.7.5 (binary distribution)

Compiling any AWK script and producing a fast stand-alone Win32 executable

This is a ported binary-only 32-bit Windows distribution of

for usage in combination with a previously installed

MinGW32 C/C++ compiler - Minimalist GNU for Win32    (http://www.mingw.org).

• AWKA comprises a translator of the AWK programming language to ANSI-C and a library against which translated programs may be linked.
• For using AWKA you only have to
  • install the MinGW32 compiler;
  • copy 3 files included in this distribution into the specified directories.

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Quick overview about AWK scripting

• Enormous distribution of the script language: It is available on all common operating systems;
• Usenet discussion group comp.lang.awk gives a really good overview and, if needed, some assistance about using AWK implementations on any platform. Please note, that the link above works only correcly after configuring an Usenet newsreader (e.g. Outlook Express, Forté Free Agent, 40tude Dialog or XNews) support at your web browser.
  In other cases you may take look at the Google-Groups);
• Only the interpreter (in this case mawk.exe) is needed for running the scripts -
  no external libraries etc. are necessary;
• Easy-to-learn script language using the common C language syntax and semantics but:
  • no preprocessor;
  • no pointers / addresses;
  • no structures and -unions;
  • multi dimensional arrays are accessed in a different way;
  • "switch()...case...default..." statement not available in standard AWK;
  • "sprintf()" function works different and is more powerful compared with standard-C;
  • script execution is controlled by rules, not by main(...);
  • comments always starts with # and ends at the end of the same line;
  • no support for bit manipulation or bit shifting;
  • only a subset of standard library functions and -procedures available.
  But additionally:
  • smart automatic variable type handling;
  • predefined built-in variables;
  • simplified file handling;
  • regular expressions and pattern processing features;
  • string handling features and string processing functions;
  • initialization and cleanup rules possible;
  • strings are also accepted as array indices, which can be used as a substitute for structure types;
  • and many more... (please refer to the language reference manual
    which is part of this distribution).
• In most cases it is much faster and easier writing a short AWK script than implementing some code in C or C++;
• AWK script language features are a subset of the Perl script language -
  For easy conversion of AWK scripts into Perl scripts you may use the a2p tool which is part of almost every Perl language distribution;
• Interpreter and compiler are freely available.

Overview and comparison of freely available AWK interpreters at Win32

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Short example demonstrating some AWK features...

A simple example shows some advantages of simple AWK scripts.

   mawk -f concat.awk file_1.txt file_2.txt > file_full.txt

   concat file_1.txt file_2.txt > file_full.txt

The result of this smart concatenation will be stored into file_full.txt.

Example:

Line01
Line02
Line03
Line04
Line05

Line04
Line05
Line06
Line07

Line01
Line02
Line03
Line04
Line05
Line06
Line07