[PLUG] Awk script repositories?

[Tom]

While this is not the answer you are looking for - if you are looking
for all sorts of data manipulation libraries - I would turn your
attention to Python or Perl - both have more libraries than you could
discover/learn in one lifetime.
While awk is supper fast and convenient, especially when used in pipes,
it is not the shining example of modern modular tool for large/long
projects. That being said, you are probably using unique data files and
formats for every little thing you do. So, you will need at least some
light custom data processing for each of those jobs, and in that case,
reusable awk scripts maybe a good choice.
Tomas
On Fri, 2017-03-31 at 14:05 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
>    Are there available repositories of working, complex awk scripts
> for
> manipulating large text files? These are not related to system or
> network
> administration, but general business information.
> 
>    I frequently have large lists, such as names and addresses, that
> need to
> be re-organized (e.g., grouped by county) or reformatted (e.g., for
> insertion into database tables). It is really time consuming to do
> all this
> manually and I'm not sufficiently experienced writing complex awk
> scripts to
> know where to begin writing my own.
> 
>    If there are libraries of such scripts I might find one that does
> what I
> need in any given situation, or find several that I can glue together
> to
> accomplish what needs to be done.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Rich
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