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       # 2024-06-26 - AWK Recipe
       
       I manage a collection of about 80,000 or so recipes.  Most of them
       are in a plain-text format used by the Meal-Master recipe manager.
       The top line is supposed to be something like:
       
           MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06
       
       The other day i found one that had a few unwanted lines on top.  It
       was probably a "copy paste" error from years ago.  I hand fixed the
       recipe format, but wanted to search my collection to see whether any
       other recipes needed to be fixed.
       
       I wrote a quick awk script to report whether a file has lines before
       the Meal-Master signature, then i ran it on the whole database.  To
       my surprise, it took less than 10 seconds to search all 80k recipes.
       
           $ find moar/ascii -type f | xargs awk '
           /via [Mm]eal-[Mm]aster/   { if (FNR > 1) found[FILENAME] = 1 }
           END                       { for (fn in found) print fn }' >rlis
       
       It found a total of 35 other recipes that needed to be fixed.
       
       What's my point?  I got a kick out of how quickly i arrived at a
       solution using awk.  It was easy and effective.
       
       By the way, i tried it using gawk, mawk, and nawk, and got the
       same results in all three.
       
       tags: bencollver,retrocomputing,technical
       
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