3.2 KiB
The One True Awk
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).
Copyright
Copyright (C) Lucent Technologies 1997
All Rights Reserved
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that the copyright notice and this permission notice and warranty disclaimer appear in supporting documentation, and that the name Lucent Technologies or any of its entities not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific, written prior permission.
LUCENT DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL LUCENT OR ANY OF ITS ENTITIES BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
Distribution and Reporting Problems
Changes, mostly bug fixes and occasional enhancements, are listed
in FIXES
. If you distribute this code further, please please please
distribute FIXES
with it.
If you find errors, please report them to bwk@cs.princeton.edu. Please also open an issue in the GitHub issue tracker, to make it easy to track issues. Thanks.
Submitting Pull Requests
Pull requests are welcome. However, please create them with a request
to merge into the staging
branch instead of into the master
branch.
This allows us to do testing, and to make any additional edits or changes
after the merge but before merging to master
.
Building
The program itself is created by
make
which should produce a sequence of messages roughly like this:
yacc -d awkgram.y
conflicts: 43 shift/reduce, 85 reduce/reduce
mv y.tab.c ytab.c
mv y.tab.h ytab.h
cc -c ytab.c
cc -c b.c
cc -c main.c
cc -c parse.c
cc maketab.c -o maketab
./maketab >proctab.c
cc -c proctab.c
cc -c tran.c
cc -c lib.c
cc -c run.c
cc -c lex.c
cc ytab.o b.o main.o parse.o proctab.o tran.o lib.o run.o lex.o -lm
This produces an executable a.out
; you will eventually want to
move this to some place like /usr/bin/awk
.
If your system does not have yacc
or bison
(the GNU
equivalent), you need to install one of them first.
NOTE: This version uses ANSI C (C 99), as you should also. We have
compiled this without any changes using gcc -Wall
and/or local C
compilers on a variety of systems, but new systems or compilers
may raise some new complaint; reports of difficulties are
welcome.
This compiles without change on Macintosh OS X using gcc
and
the standard developer tools.
The version of malloc
that comes with some systems is sometimes
astonishly slow. If awk
seems slow, you might try fixing that.
More generally, turning on optimization can significantly improve
awk
's speed, perhaps by 1/3 for highest levels.
Last Updated
Wed Jan 1 22:44:38 IST 2020