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mauvehaus on June 28, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Parsing JSON in Forty Lines of Awk

...And once you get away from the most basic, standard set of features, the several awks in existence have diverging sets of additional features.

chaps on June 28, 2025 [–]

Things are already like that, friend! We have mawk, gawk and nawk. But it's fun to think about how we could improve our ideal tooling if we had a time machine.

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