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Re: Side-by-Side

From Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.awk
Subject Re: Side-by-Side
Date 2025-10-25 03:03 +0200
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On 25.10.2025 02:26, Michael Sanders wrote:
> 
> [...] I do wish Windows had a better *native* toolkit for
> these sorts of things.

Well, what shall I say to people that want to do such things
but adhere to the Windows platform?

You can of course install Cygwin to have access to the tools.

Myself I got a clear preference once I saw and worked on a
Unix system. And early access to books like Kernighan, Pike:
"The UNIX Programming Environment" solidifies that. (Still
worth reading for newbies, I think.)

> The real issue I have is a lack of printf
> from the command line in Windows.

This is of course a Unix standard command. And if you can
install some prominent Unix shell (or have it through Cygwin)
you get it even as shell built-in.

> Awk (paste too) makes these sorts jobs trivial...

(It's so amazing what you can do with the Unix tool chest!)

Janis

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  Re: Side-by-Side Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-24 17:19 +0200
    Re: Side-by-Side Michael Sanders <porkchop@invalid.foo> - 2025-10-25 00:26 +0000
      Re: Side-by-Side Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-25 03:03 +0200
        Re: Side-by-Side Michael Sanders <porkchop@invalid.foo> - 2025-10-26 07:56 +0000
      Re: Side-by-Side mack@the-knife.org (Mack The Knife) - 2025-10-25 17:25 +0000
        Re: Side-by-Side Michael Sanders <porkchop@invalid.foo> - 2025-10-26 07:50 +0000

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