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by mooreds·13y ago·view on hn ↗
Anyone know of example of some really big awk apps? The idea of plugging c extensions into gawk is both intriguing and slightly terrifying.
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I have written gawk apps of over 10,000 lines. One was a text formatter, another was a simulator.

I also wrote a gawk program that generated a string over 300,000,000 characters long (yes - three hundred million). No problems (well, a few, but I handled them).

gawk ftw!!!