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| goawk(1) | General Commands Manual | goawk(1) |
NAME¶
goawk - POSIX-compliant AWK interpreter with CSV support
SYNOPSIS¶
goawk [-F fs] [-v var=value] [-f progfile | 'prog'] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION¶
goawk is a POSIX-compliant AWK interpreter written in Go. Additionally, it has some features not provided by POSIX AWK:
- Code coverage.
- Proper CSV and TSV support.
- Negative field indexes to access fields from the right.
- Single-quoted strings.
OPTIONS¶
Standard AWK arguments:
--csv
Enable CSV input mode. Equivalent to -i
csv.
-F fs
Use fs for the input field separator.
-F progfile
Read the AWK program source from progfile.
Multiple -f options may be used.
-v var=val
Assign the value val to the variable var
before the execution of the program begins.
Additional GoAWK features:
-c
Use Unicode characters for index, length, match, substr,
and %c.
-E progfile
Load program from progfile, disable
var=val arguments, stop processing arguments, parse header row
and enable @"field" in CSV input mode.
-H
Parse header row and enable @"field" in CSV
input mode.
-h,--help
Show the help message and exit.
-i mode
Parse input into fields using CSV format, ignoring
FS and RS.
-o mode
Use CSV output, ignoring OFS and ORS.
-version
Show GoAWK version and exit.
GoAWK debugging arguments:
-coverappend
Append to coverage file instead of overwriting.
-covermode mode
Set coverage mode, where mode is set or
count (default: set).
-coverprofile file
Write coverage profile to file.
-cpuprofile file
Write cpu profile to file.
-d
Print parsed syntax tree to stdout and exit.
-da
Print VM assembly instructions to stdout and exit.
-dt
Print variable type information to stdout and exit.
-memprofile file
Write memory profile to file.
SEE ALSO¶
| 2024-09-18 |