Additional Resources

This section lists resources for further exploration.

This following URLs indicate where to get source code for GNU sed, four freely available versions of awk, and GNU gettext.

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/sed/sed-3.02.tar.gz

The Free Software Foundation's version of sed. The somewhat older version, 2.05, is also available.

http://cm.bell-labs.com/~bwk

Brian Kernighan's home page, with links to the source code for the latest version of awk from Bell Laboratories.

ftp://ftp.freefriends.org/arnold/Awkstuff/mawk1.3.3.tar.gz

Michael Brennan's mawk. A very fast, very robust version of awk.

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk/gawk-3.1.1.tar.gz

The Free Software Foundation's version of awk, called gawk.

http://awka.sourceforge.net

The home page for awka, a translator that turns awk programs into C, compiles the generated C, and then links the object code with a library that performs the core awk functions.

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.11.2.tar.gz

The source code for GNU gettext. Get this if you need to produce translations for your awk programs that use gawk.