# ezrosent/frawk

an efficient awk-like language

Repository: https://github.com/ezrosent/frawk
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/frawk
Language: Rust
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2025-09-26T04:45:49+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 43/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 44, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2605, "days_push": 341, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1315, forks 42 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:20.688323+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: parser, csv, interpreter, compiler
- domain: developer-tools, programming-languages
- platform: windows, cli, rust
- tags: awk, csv, tsv, text-processing, parallelism, scripting-language, command-line, data-engineering, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- ezrosent/frawk (main) score 43

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:20.688323+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:48:40.714740+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/ezrosent/frawk (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:20.688323+00:00, sha 17654ae2841f)
  - registry_crates: https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/frawk (fetched 2026-08-29T12:07:02.520930+00:00, sha ef999c10a188)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.