On  4 Nov, mlh wrote:
>  :-) 
>  Well from the fire into the frying pan is still an 
>  improvement. 

<Luke ducks away from a language war>  :-)
 
>  If there was a a2py I'd recommend that. 

I can't honestly see a reason to convert an awk script to another
language, even ici.  IMHO awk is a clean and elegant language, and the
maintainability of the program would not increase by translating it!

I think what we're really suffering from is the shell's quoting
awkwardness.  Maybe a better solution would be to put the awk script
into a #!/bin/awk script file and install it somewhere for use.

luke

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