ezrosent/frawk

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1315 stars · 42 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

frawk is a small, efficient Awk-like programming language implemented in Rust for writing short programs that process textual data. It supports escaped CSV/TSV handling like standard Awk fields, offers parallelism, and compiles to faster-executing code than traditional Awk.

Use cases

• process large csv or tsv files from the command line
• replace awk scripts with a faster alternative
• handle escaped csv fields like awk fields
• write short text-processing scripts with parallelism
• filter and transform structured text data

When to choose

• you need faster execution than gawk or mawk on large text files
• you want built-in escaped CSV/TSV field handling in an awk-like tool
• you want parallel text processing in an awk-style language

When to avoid

• you need actively maintained software with frequent bug fixes
• you need full POSIX awk compatibility
• you want a general-purpose programming language rather than a text-processing tool

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

parser csv interpreter compiler developer-tools programming-languages windows cli rust awk csv tsv text-processing parallelism scripting-language command-line data-engineering linux macos

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