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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" |