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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.
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
Pros of AWK
Pros of Groovy
- Java platform44
- Much more productive than java33
- Concise and readable29
- Very little code needed for complex tasks28
- Dynamic language22
- Nice dynamic syntax for the jvm13
- Very fast9
- Can work with JSON as an object7
- Easy to setup7
- Supports closures (lambdas)6
- Literal Collections6
- Syntactic sugar3
- Optional static typing3
- Developer Friendly2
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Cons of AWK
Cons of Groovy
- Groovy Code can be slower than Java Code3
- Absurd syntax1
- Objects cause stateful/heap mess1