[Gawkextlib-users] Announce: binrecord extension for processing binary data files

[SBP <se...@ik...>]

Hi,

I've developed and extension called "binrecord" to process binary data files in GAWK, and I'd like to share it with you all!

I've wanted to be able to do this for a long time, and now I finally got the time to look into it and make it happen.

The code is available at https://gitlab.com/seirios/binrecord under the GPLv3. It is technically a gawkextlib extension.

Essentially, if you want to process a binary data file "data.bin" consisting of records with, say, a uint32 index and three float coordinates, all in little-endian byte order, you can simply do (using the included `bawk' command):

$ bawk '%u32le 3%f32le' '{ print $2,$3,$4 }' data.bin

You can find all the information about the extension in the README.

Hope you like this, as I do :)

Cheers!
Sirio