hello, On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 07:22:57PM +0100, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > > I the same mood: I realized recently that no implementation of awk > > seems to implement quantifiers which is really desapointing. > Awk uses EREs, so if by quantifiers you mean {n,m}, then awk most > certainly supports this.
I just double checked. works on OBSD as well as the other versions of awk that are available on my debian. does() if $awk '/ba{3}b|ba\{3\}b/' | grep -qF baaab then >&2 echo "$awk does" else >&2 echo "$awk don't" fi <<-% baaab baab % for awk in gawk mawk "busybox awk"; do does done which leads me to gawk does mawk don't busybox awk does Sorry about the fake news :/ Regards, Marc