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diff --git a/development/mawk/README b/development/mawk/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..795e5fc177e12 --- /dev/null +++ b/development/mawk/README @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +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. + +The AWK language is useful for manipulation of data files, text +retrieval and processing, and for prototyping and experimenting with +algorithms. mawk is a new awk meaning it implements the AWK language as +defined in Aho, Kernighan and Weinberger, The AWK Programming Language, +Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1988. + +mawk conforms to the Posix 1003.2 (draft 11.3) definition of the AWK +language which contains a few features not described in the AWK book, +and mawk provides a small number of extensions. + +This build does not conflict with Slackware's own awk (from the gawk +package). |