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gawk DistributionThis section provides a brief overview of the sample extensions
that come in the gawk distribution. Some of them are intended
for production use (e.g., the filefuncs, readdir, and
inplace extensions). Others mainly provide example code that
shows how to use the extension API.
| • Extension Sample File Functions: | The file functions sample. | |
| • Extension Sample Fnmatch: | An interface to fnmatch().
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| • Extension Sample Fork: | An interface to fork() and other
process functions.
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| • Extension Sample Inplace: | Enabling in-place file editing. | |
| • Extension Sample Ord: | Character to value to character conversions. | |
| • Extension Sample Readdir: | An interface to readdir().
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| • Extension Sample Revout: | Reversing output sample output wrapper. | |
| • Extension Sample Rev2way: | Reversing data sample two-way processor. | |
| • Extension Sample Read write array: | Serializing an array to a file. | |
| • Extension Sample Readfile: | Reading an entire file into a string. | |
| • Extension Sample Time: | An interface to gettimeofday()
and sleep().
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| • Extension Sample API Tests: | Tests for the API. |