Extension Samples (The GNU Awk User’s Guide)

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17.7 The Sample Extensions in the gawk Distribution

This section provides a brief overview of the sample extensions that come in the gawk distribution. Some of them are intended for production use (e.g., the filefuncs, readdir, and inplace extensions). Others mainly provide example code that shows how to use the extension API.

• Extension Sample File Functions		The file functions sample.
• Extension Sample Fnmatch		An interface to fnmatch().
• Extension Sample Fork		An interface to fork() and other process functions.
• Extension Sample Inplace		Enabling in-place file editing.
• Extension Sample Ord		Character to value to character conversions.
• Extension Sample Readdir		An interface to readdir().
• Extension Sample Revout		Reversing output sample output wrapper.
• Extension Sample Rev2way		Reversing data sample two-way processor.
• Extension Sample Read write array		Serializing an array to a file.
• Extension Sample Readfile		Reading an entire file into a string.
• Extension Sample Time		An interface to gettimeofday() and sleep().
• Extension Sample API Tests		Tests for the API.