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| author | B. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com> | 2020-10-13 00:32:10 -0400 |
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| committer | Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org> | 2020-10-17 09:39:22 +0700 |
| commit | 93067f0367bfab9f5545e0c989e25db64d25a2b7 (patch) | |
| tree | b90e5a730f12c95603219d139bd3fe623f3de5b9 /development/mawk | |
| parent | f622f8fc661688ae1dc2881755c7444de8667fbc (diff) | |
| download | slackbuilds-93067f0367bfab9f5545e0c989e25db64d25a2b7.tar.gz | |
development/mawk: Fix README.
Signed-off-by: B. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'development/mawk')
| -rw-r--r-- | development/mawk/README | 22 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/development/mawk/README b/development/mawk/README index 2c3bcc4003..fbf82b010d 100644 --- a/development/mawk/README +++ b/development/mawk/README @@ -1,8 +1,9 @@ mawk (fast awk implementation) -mawk (Mike's AWK) is an interpreter for the AWK Programming Language. It's -a very fast AWK implementation based on a bytecode interpreter. Originally -written by Mike Brennan, mawk is currently maintained by Thomas E. Dickey. +mawk (Mike's AWK) is an interpreter for the AWK Programming +Language. It's a very fast AWK implementation based on a bytecode +interpreter. Originally written by Mike Brennan, mawk is currently +maintained by Thomas E. Dickey. The AWK language is useful for manipulation of data files, text retrieval and processing, and for prototyping and experimenting with @@ -32,11 +33,14 @@ regular expression engine: If you require the glibc engine, export BUILTIN_REGEX=no in the script's environment. -The default version in the .info file is 1.3.4, which is a stable release -from 2009. If you'd like to (or need to) build one of the newer 'snapshot' -releases, get the source from ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/mawk/ -and export VERSION in the environment. Notice the filenames look like -e.g. "mawk-1.3.4-20171017.tgz". Slackware version numbers can't contain -the hyphen, so use an underscore instead. Example: +The default version in the .info file is 1.3.4, which is a stable +release from 2009. If you'd like to (or need to) build one of the newer +'snapshot' releases, get the source from: + +ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/mawk/ + +...and export VERSION in the environment. Notice the filenames look +like e.g. "mawk-1.3.4-20171017.tgz". Slackware version numbers can't +contain the hyphen, so use an underscore instead. Example: # export "VERSION=1.3.4_20171017" |