grep, etc

[Bill Vermillion]

On or about Wed, Aug 18 11:58 , while attempting a Zarathustra 
emulation Fairlight thus spake: 

> Simon--er, no...it was Bob Stockler--said:

> > Correction . . . it's "mawk", and not "nawk", that's the fastest
> > of all of the various flavors of AWK.

> I -knew- I'd get nailed on that. I thought I'd seen both, so
> I did a quick google searh to verify that nawk existed, but I
> apparently remembered the wrong permutation -anyway-. Sorry,
> Bob. :)

> Boy, do I feel...awkward.  *duck*

And for speed and things you might run over and over and over again
[sounds like a song doesn't it] you might look at  awka.  It
converts awk programs to Ansi C.

Bill
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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com