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donho

As title.

guy038

Hello, @jim-dailey and All,

Jim, you said :

Anyone who writes code would be well-served by at least a cursory familiarity with some version of AWK.

I completely agree with this statement :-))

BTW, The parentheses to surround the part FNR,$0 are not mandatory, at least with gawk v4.0.2. So :

awk "{print FNR,$0}" snip.txt > nsnip.txt

This version does NOT need any associated DLL and is ridiculously small : 156,174 bytes, although really very powerful !

Best Regards,

guy038

P.S. :

I used with an INPUT file of size 73,519 Ko, containing 444,810 lines with an average number of chars of 150 per line.

And guess what : the OUTPUT file was created in 4,1 s, on my very old Win XP machine !

Jim Dailey

Hello to you, @guy038. You said

BTW, The parentheses to surround the part FNR,$0 are not mandatory, at least with gawk v4.0.2.

You are correct, but I can’t bring myself not to use parenthesis with print() and printf(). But that’s just the start of my “non-standard” AWK behaviors. As an example, any substantial script I write will start thusly:

BEGIN {exit}

How’s that for non-standard?! :-)