13.3 A Grab Bag of awk Programs

This section is a large “grab bag” of miscellaneous programs. We hope you find them both interesting and enjoyable.

• Dupword Program: Finding duplicated words in a document.
• Alarm Program: An alarm clock.
• Translate Program: A program similar to the tr utility.
• Labels Program: Printing mailing labels.
• Word Sorting: A program to produce a word usage count.
• History Sorting: Eliminating duplicate entries from a history file.
• Extract Program: Pulling out programs from Texinfo source files.
• Simple Sed: A Simple Stream Editor.
• Igawk Program: A wrapper for awk that includes files.