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| From | Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.awk |
| Subject | Re: Side-by-Side |
| Date | 2025-10-25 03:03 +0200 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <10dh7lb$30aj2$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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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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