On Fri, 15 Sept 2023 at 07:10, Mary Ann Horton <mah@mhorton.net> wrote:

Which Git repo?  The CSV code is a game changer for awk, otherwise I need a hokey python script.

Me too!

Is it being merged into the Gnu awk that will wind up in Red Hat awk? Please please?

Debian is an important distribution in this regard, which may go into many other distros like Ubuntu. I just looked in Debian stable --

$ apt-cache show original-awk
Package: original-awk
Version: 2022-09-12-1
Installed-Size: 186
Maintainer: Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Provides: awk
Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34)
Description-en: The original awk described in "The AWK Programming Language"
 This is the version of awk described in "The AWK Programming Language",
 by Al Aho, Brian Kernighan, and Peter Weinberger
 (Addison-Wesley, 1988, ISBN 0-201-07981-X).
Description-md5: 7a3c565b081bc0f03d9e79a6fd87fe27
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk
Tag: devel::interpreter, implemented-in::c, interface::commandline,
 role::program, scope::utility, use::filtering, use::scanning,
 works-with::text
Section: interpreters
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/o/original-awk/original-awk_2022-09-12-1_amd64.deb
Size: 86548
MD5sum: f5a128040710433c276d866038703051
SHA256: f1835f1e5aca2f69e0b997b285b33b45aaa1abf4071edfd7481149076ca80a63

The key URLs are
  https://packages.debian.org/sid/original-awk
  https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk
  sanvila@debian.org

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