Jawk

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{{implementation|AWK}} Jawk runs an Awk program inside the [[runs on vm::Java Virtual Machine]].

== Quick start == Go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/jawk/ and download the latest jar. Then run a command like

$ java -jar jawk.1_02.jar 'BEGIN { print "Hello from JVM" }'

== Caveat == The space after -F is not optional.

$ java -jar jawk.jar -F: '{ print $1 }'   # FAILS!!
$ java -jar jawk.jar -F : '{ print $1 }'  # ok