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. Gawk is Gnu's interpreter for the awk language' 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, datamash, Mawk and spot.

Gawk alternatives are mainly File Search Utilities but may also be Statistical Analyzers or Programming Languages. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Gawk.

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Gawk

Free • Open Source
Programming Language
Linux

The awk utility interprets a special-purpose programming language that makes it possible to handle simple data-reformatting...

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ripgrep
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Free • Open Source
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12 alternatives to ripgrep
ripgrep is a command line search tool that combines the usability of The Silver Searcher (an ack clone) with the raw speed of GNU grep.
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1. Command line interfaceripgrep either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
2. Full-Text Searchripgrep lets you search for specific words or phrases from inside a document or database.
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ack
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File Search Utility
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14 alternatives to ack
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. It knows about certain file types, based on both the extension on the file and, in some cases, the contents of the file.
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1. Full-Text Searchack lets you search for specific words or phrases from inside a document or database.
Support for regular expressions
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datamash
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Statistical Analyzer
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3 alternatives to datamash
GNU datamash is command-line program which performs simple calculation (e.g. count, sum, min, max, mean, stdev, string coalescing) on input files. Datamash has a rich set of statistical functions, to quickly assess information in textual input files.
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1. Command line interfacedatamash either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
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Mawk
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Free • Open Source
Programming Language
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5 alternatives to Mawk
mawk is an interpreter for the AWK Programming Language.
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spot
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Free • Open Source
File Search Utility
Linux
5 alternatives to spot
Tiny ack-style file search utility. All arguments constitute the search text. No need to wrap most searches in double quotes. Short & written in Bash - just find & grep: you can edit it easily to suit your liking.

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Mawk

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