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Mar 01: Michael Sanders demos an X-windows GUI for AWK.

Mar 01: Awk100#24: A. Lahm and E. de Rinaldis' patent search, in AWK

Feb 28: Tim Menzies asks this community to write an AWK cookbook.

Feb 28: Arnold Robbins announces a new debugger for GAWK.

Feb 28: Awk100#23: Premysl Janouch offers a IRC bot, In AWK

Feb 28: Updated: the AWK FAQ

Feb 28: Tim Menzies offers a tiny content management system, in Awk.

Jan 31: Comment system added to awk.info. For example, see discussion bottom of ?keys2awk

Jan 31: Martin Cohen shows that Gawk can handle massively long strings (300 million characters).

Jan 31: The AWK FAQ is being updated. For comments/ corrections/ extensions, please mail tim@menzies.us

Jan 31: Martin Cohen finds Awk on the Android platform.

Jan 31: Aleksey Cheusov released a new version of runawk.

Jan 31: Hirofumi Saito contributes a candidate Awk mascot.

Jan 31: Michael Sanders shows how to quickly build an AWK GUI for windows.

Jan 31: Hyung-Hwan Chung offers QSE, an embeddable Awk Interpreter.

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categories: Android,Jan,2010,MartinC

Awk on Android

Recently, on comp.lang.awk, Michael Sanders asked:

Is gawk (or a reasonable version of awk) available for Google's Android? How about Nokia's N900?

It is available for Nokia's N810 (as part of busybox) and, I would hope for the N900.

Martin Cohen answers:

Well, it looks like maybe it is. I did another Google search for "awk android" and this was one of the results: Downloading File: /43862/awk4j-1.6.1-android-src.zip - awk4j (AWK ...

When I followed the link, I got the file awk4j-1.6.1-android-src.zip - when I unpacked it there were a number of files including a directory called "Sample" with a number of awk programs (with odd characters at the end of each line - I opened them in emacs) and a files named "awk4jAndroid.apk" which is, I guess, awk for Android (duh!).