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FAWK: LLMs can write a language interpreter

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212 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 21 Nov 25 10:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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jph00 ◴[21 Nov 25 17:42 UTC] No.46006734[source]▶
There’s already a language that provides all the features of awk plus modern language conveniences, and is available on every system you can think of. It’s Perl.

It even comes with an auto translator for converting awk to Perl: https://perldoc.perl.org/5.8.4/a2p

It also provides all the features of sed.

The command line flags to learn about to get all these features are: -p -i -n -l -a -e

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1. AdieuToLogic ◴[22 Nov 25 01:38 UTC] No.46011256[source]▶
> The command line flags to learn about to get all these features are: -p -i -n -l -a -e

One of my favorite Perl mnemonics when needing to apply edits to a set of files is:

  With Perl, it is as easy as pie.
Which reminds me that making a global substitution across N files can be done with:

  perl -p -i -e '<insert substitution here>' $WHAT_FILES