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Sun 29 Oct 2023 05:20:16 PM UTC
Continuing my AWK explorations I've written a query tool which lists
the N most recent e-book additions to the RTC lending library:
--
~$ ~zilog/public_bin/recent_books.awk -h
Returns the N most recently added RTC library books.
usage: recent_books.awk [ -h | N ] ; N defaults to 10
made with GNU Awk, version 5.2.2
~$ ~zilog/public_bin/recent_books.awk 7
:: RTC lending library - recent additions ::
:added: :size: :full path to e-book:
2023-06-26 27.2 MB /home/***/books/Oil_Power_and_War-a_dark_history.epub
2023-06-09 3.4 MB /home/***/books/Ultrasocial-JohnGowdy.pdf
2023-05-29 1.1 MB /home/***/books/Overshoot-WillCatton.epub
2023-04-06 0.7 MB /home/***/books/christoyannopoulos-christian-anarchism.epub
2023-03-19 0.2 MB /home/***/books/frances-hodgson-burnett_the-secret-garden.gpub
2023-03-18 0.6 MB /home/***/books/frances-hodgson-burnett_the-secret-garden.epub
2022-10-07 3.3 MB /home/***/books/QED-Text-Editor_by_DMR_and_KLT_19700622.epub
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The tool makes use of gawk-specific features, namely it's support for
shared library extensions. gawk comes with several native shared library
extensions, sort of a "demonstration kit", of which recent_books.awk makes
use of two: readdir(3am) and filefuncs(3am). The latter is particularly
useful as it provides access to a number of file/dir functions that one
would otherwise have to rely on operating system tools for. Glancing at
the man page suggests possible further refinement of recent_books.awk
such that the readdir(3am) functions can be replaced with filefunc(3am)
functionality.