Awk-ward - Run Awk programs in Neovim
Awk-ward allows you to try out Awk scripts right in your editor; you provide the input as either a file or a buffer and the output is displayed in an output buffer. Best of all, you don't even have to write your program or data to disc, Awk-ward will read straight from the buffer, and you can experiment without breaking any of your programs.
Setup and quick start
Install Awk-ward like any other Neovim plugin. You also need an implementation
of Awk installed on your system. If you have more than one you can specify the
path to the binary by setting the g:awkprg
variable (global) or b:awkprg
(local). The default Awk implementation is whatever your awk
command resolves
to.
Example session
Open a buffer with an Awk program (you do not have to write the buffer to a file). We'll use the following as an example:
# Print records as 'ID Last First'
{print $3, $2, $1}
Now run :AwkWard
and two new buffers will open, one for input and the other
one for output. Enter some text into the input buffer:
John Doe 123
Once you exit insert-mode the output buffer will show the Awk output
123 Doe John
Note that you did not have to save the input buffer, the output gets updated
live. The output also updates live when you edit the program buffer. Suppose
now that we want to change our input from a buffer to a file. We can execute
the command again with our new settings: :AwkWard -infile data.txt
. The input
buffer will be closed and the output will show the result from processing the
file data.txt
.
Status of the project
Awk-ward is feature-complete and ready for use. Keep an eye on the TODO file for new ideas.
License
Released under the MIT (Expat) license, see the COPYING file for details.