Gawk Alternatives
Gawk is described as 'The awk utility interprets a special-purpose programming language that makes it possible to handle simple data-reformatting jobs with just a few lines of code' and is an app in the Development category. There are five alternatives to Gawk for Linux, Mac, Windows and BSD. The best alternative is ripgrep, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Gawk are ack (Free, Open Source), datamash (Free, Open Source), spot (Free, Open Source) and Mawk (Free, Open Source).
- ripgrep combines the usability of The Silver Searcher with the raw speed of grep. View 12 alternatives to ripgrep
- Ack is designed as a standalone (one perl file) replacement for 99% of the uses of grep. ack is intelligent about the files it searches. View 14 alternatives to ack
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- GNU datamash is command-line program which performs simple calculation (e.g. count, sum, min, max, mean, stdev, string coalescing) on input files. View 3 alternatives to datamash
- Tiny ack-style file search utility. All arguments constitute the search text. No need to wrap most searches in double quotes. View 5 alternatives to spot
- mawk is an interpreter for the AWK Programming Language. View 5 alternatives to Mawk