> > Why do you wish to know awk (except to read awk applications)?
> > Perl is much better.
>
> Just for a more lightweight solution (one liners).
Perl one liners work just fine:
perl -i -pe 's/Foo/Bar/g' *.c
does inplace search and replace of Foo with Bar in all *.c files.
> I know,
> though, I should
> just learn more Perl...
What you really should learn is Perl style regular expressions.
If you don't like Perl they can be used in Python as well.
Beside if you know one kind the other kinds are easy to learn.
> > Also strange function protypes that can't be identified as such
> > are simple skipped and it is hard for me to know if that happends.
> > Please report to me if you find any.
>
> OK, Ive found a couple so far but I'll lump them together
> when I have it
> working. Right know I have it generating prototypes and blank
> functions with
> the correct parameters. Still some work to go though.
OK.
> > Anyway I'm not sure it really should handle such things.
> > After all you can alway use sort and uniq or
> > a simple perl script. It isn't very useful
> > at its current form so some formating is needed anyway.
>
> I agree, I dont think it should. I have to do post processing
> on the results
> anyway (insert variable names for tracing etc), so its not a problem.
OK. If you need Perl script (or something else) that does any kind
of text to text transformations, just ask.
