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From: yeti <yeti@tilde.institute>
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Subject: Feature which every AWK should have?
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 12:32:18 +0042
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* I think GAWK's -E and MAWK's -We really makes scripts more robust.

* Bit ops (shifts, and/or/xor) as seen in the BSD branch of Onetrueawk.

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