Mawk Alternatives

Apps similar to Mawk include ripgrep, which is free and open source. Other options are ack, Gawk, App-Rak and datamash. In total there are six File Search Utilities like Mawk for Linux, Mac and Windows.

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Mawk alternatives page was last updated Nov 1, 2023

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ripgrep
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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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File Search
Origin
United States
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ack
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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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Free
Open Source
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File Search
Origin
United States
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Mac
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Gawk
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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.
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Open Source
Origin
United States
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Linux
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App-Rak
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App::Rak provides a CLI called rak that allows you to look for a pattern in (a selection of files) from one or more directories recursively. It has been modeled after utilities such as grep, ack, ag and rg, with a little bit of find mixed in, and -n and -p parameters of many...
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Free
Open Source
Application type
File Search
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datamash
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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. Datamash has a rich set of statistical functions, to quickly assess information in textual input files.
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Free
Open Source
Application type
Statistical Analyzer
Origin
Israel
Platforms
Mac
Windows
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spot
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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.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
File Search
Origin
United States
Platforms
Linux
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