[TUHS] Re: The AWK Programming Language, 2nd Ed.: What's new?

On Fri, 15 Sept 2023 at 07:10, Mary Ann Horton <mah(a)mhorton.net> wrote: Me too! Debian is an important distribution in this regard, which may go into many other distros like Ubuntu. I just looked in Debian stable -- $ apt-cache show original-awk Package: original-awk Version: 2022-09-12-1 Installed-Size: 186 Maintainer: Santiago Vila <sanvila(a)debian.org> Architecture: amd64 Provides: awk Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34) Description-en: The original awk described in "The AWK Programming Language" This is the version of awk described in "The AWK Programming Language", by Al Aho, Brian Kernighan, and Peter Weinberger (Addison-Wesley, 1988, ISBN 0-201-07981-X). Description-md5: 7a3c565b081bc0f03d9e79a6fd87fe27 Multi-Arch: foreign Homepage: https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk Tag: devel::interpreter, implemented-in::c, interface::commandline, role::program, scope::utility, use::filtering, use::scanning, works-with::text Section: interpreters Priority: optional Filename: pool/main/o/original-awk/original-awk_2022-09-12-1_amd64.deb Size: 86548 MD5sum: f5a128040710433c276d866038703051 SHA256: f1835f1e5aca2f69e0b997b285b33b45aaa1abf4071edfd7481149076ca80a63 The key URLs are https://packages.debian.org/sid/original-awk https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk sanvila(a)debian.org -- Ajay Shah ajayshah(a)mayin.org http://www.mayin.org/ajayshah