i was reminded of the below quote
Heh, if you want head or tail, use sed commands to do it and perhaps alias it by those names, or make it an executable script. Remove those from busybox and relive the true spirit of the day!
while reading
>standard command-line tools that can be easily approximated using short Haskell expressions.
https://github.com/gelisam/hawk # Haskell text processor for the command-line
While Hawk and awk have similar use cases, the philosophy behind the two is very different. Awk uses a specialized language designed to concisely express many text transformations, while Hawk uses the general-purpose language Haskell, which is also known for being concise, among other things. There are many standard command-line tools that can be easily approximated using short Haskell expressions.
and have afair.. also seen examples in the gawk manual of mimicking (*tangent ~
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Mock_a_Mockingbird) ..
eg
https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html#wc-programand wander if anyone knows of any similar scripted alternatives "standard command-line tools"
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heare are afew oddities awk found while looking for other compleatly diffrent awk related things
https://github.com/djanderson/aho - A git implementation in awk
https://github.com/huijunchen9260/fm.awk - File manager written in awk