nawkify
to add one or more ‘awk’ commands to a unix or linux sh-ll script, using the newer version of ‘awk’, called ‘nawk’ in some unix operating systems.
‘awk’ is a programming language created by al aho, peter weinberger and brian kernighan of bell laboratories (hence the name ‘awk’) and released with unix version 7 (circa 1978). the new version, ‘called ‘nawk’, was released c irca 1985.
usually done to either improve the perfomance of a sh-ll script or to allow the script to perform something that the sh-ll itself is not capable of, such as floating point arithmatic.
i need to get a floating point answer to division in my new sh-ll script, so i’m going to awkify it. i’m also going to use awk’s ‘while’ loop construct, and i’m working on a sun solaris 8 os, so i’ll need to call the newer version of ‘awk’, called ‘nawk’. i’m actually going to nawkify it.
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