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AWK vs Groovy: What are the differences?

AWK: A language for text processing, data extraction and reporting. A data-driven scripting language consisting of a set of actions to be taken against streams of textual data – either run directly on files or used as part of a pipeline – for purposes of extracting or transforming text, such as producing formatted reports; Groovy: A dynamic language for the Java platform. Groovy builds upon the strengths of Java but has additional power features inspired by languages like Python, Ruby and Smalltalk. It makes modern programming features available to Java developers with almost-zero learning curve.

AWK and Groovy belong to "Languages" category of the tech stack.

AWK and Groovy are both open source tools. Groovy with 1.49K GitHub stars and 415 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than AWK with 206 GitHub stars and 41 GitHub forks.

Starbucks, PedidosYa, and AgoraPulse are some of the popular companies that use Groovy, whereas AWK is used by Betaout, itexto, and Datto. Groovy has a broader approval, being mentioned in 104 company stacks & 346 developers stacks; compared to AWK, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.

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Justin Dorfman
Open Source Program Manager at Reblaze · | 1 upvote · 79.5K views

If you have a file (demo.txt) that has 3 columns:

Column-1    Column-2    Column-3
Row-1a      Row-2a      Row-3a         
Row-1b      Row-2b      Row-3b
Row-1c      Row-2c      Row-3c
Row-1d      Row-2d      Row-3d
Row-1e      Row-2e      Row-3e

and you want to only view the first column of the file in your CLI, run the following:

awk {'print $1'} demo.txt

Column-1
Row-1a
Row-1b
Row-1c
Row-1d
Row-1e

If you want to print the second column of demo.txt, just replace $1 with $2

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Pros of AWK
Pros of Groovy
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    • 44
      Java platform
    • 33
      Much more productive than java
    • 29
      Concise and readable
    • 28
      Very little code needed for complex tasks
    • 22
      Dynamic language
    • 13
      Nice dynamic syntax for the jvm
    • 9
      Very fast
    • 7
      Can work with JSON as an object
    • 7
      Easy to setup
    • 6
      Supports closures (lambdas)
    • 6
      Literal Collections
    • 3
      Syntactic sugar
    • 3
      Optional static typing
    • 2
      Developer Friendly

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    Cons of AWK
    Cons of Groovy
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      • 3
        Groovy Code can be slower than Java Code
      • 1
        Absurd syntax
      • 1
        Objects cause stateful/heap mess

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      What is AWK?

      A data-driven scripting language consisting of a set of actions to be taken against streams of textual data – either run directly on files or used as part of a pipeline – for purposes of extracting or transforming text, such as producing formatted reports.

      What is Groovy?

      It is a powerful multi-faceted programming language for the JVM platform. It supports a spectrum of programming styles incorporating features from dynamic languages such as optional and duck typing, but also static compilation and static type checking at levels similar to or greater than Java through its extensible static type checker. It aims to greatly increase developer productivity with many powerful features but also a concise, familiar and easy to learn syntax.

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