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Proposed Enhancement #9

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Suggestion:

Concerning Walter Ferlazzo's "cal" command frontend at:

http://awk.info/?tip/caltricks

Perhaps because I came from the era of modest computer
power, I am sensitive to unnecessary or suboptimal algorithms
for a particular solution. For Unix scripting, this almost
always involving minimizing the number of spawned processes,
and for the above application in particular, collating
functionality into one unified script.

Maybe even Bob Orlando's impressive "dateplus.awk" (with C
and perl ports) at:

http://www.orlandokuntao.com/dateplus.html
http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8989/ur0403c/
http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9083/ur0403c/ur0403c.htm

There are supplementary utilities available by him:

"Secular American Holidays" nawk script
http://www.orlandokuntao.com/holidays_awk.txt

Additional (poorly formatted and unverified) links involving
awk/nawk/gawk are:

M,"date2JDN.awk" 
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.awk/browse_frm/thread/bba27ca6f571
30ed/85d12b854b9a4479#85d12b854b9a4479,,"","Thomas Weidenfeller" 
<xmltp@gmx.net>
^ http://mitglied.tripod.de/xmltp
^ ^ http://www.uni-giessen.de/faq/archiv/computer-
lang.java.gui.faq/msg00000.html
^ ^ http://burks.brighton.ac.uk/burks/language/java/jprogfaq/intro.htm
F,"datestamp-filter.gawk",,http://bugsplatter.mine.nu/awk/datestamp-
filter,$0,"logfile datestamp filter with optional record offset to start 
of datestamp, documentation is in the source at this time, has a debug 
feature that indicates datestamp cursor and status. Worth a look if you 
build custom log analysis scripts and need to select records based on 
datestamp, particularly an embeddded datestamp - currently preset column 
offset"
^ F,"datestamp-filter-
devel.gawk",,http://bugsplatter.mine.nu/awk/datestamp-filter-
devel,,"development version of datestamp-filter"

"lowtide.gawk": calculate low tide
ftp://ftp.armory.com/pub/scripts/lowtide

(Indeed, all of John H. DuBois III's scripts at 
ftp://ftp.armory.com/pub/scripts/add)

You've never mention tawk:

"date.tawk"
http://www.tasoft.com/awklib/date.awk

=Brian <brian_hiles@rocketmail.com>

Original issue reported on code.google.com by brian_hi...@rocketmail.com on 16 Apr 2009 at 2:18

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
this is a gold mine of information- many thanks. 

i've pushed the date/tide scripts to the next slot in my queue (june8, see
http://code.google.com/p/lawker/source/browse/fridge/etc/release.txt)

John H. DuBois' scripts are incredible. such a resource. i'm going to have to 
take a
little time to process them all.

as for "tawk", the thompson automation web site says they have shut down. is 
tawk
still active?

Original comment by menzies....@gmail.com on 20 Apr 2009 at 6:04