The problem is that awk is in POSIX, and perl is not.
There are two common sources of awk for Windows, for example, that drop one exe to provide the interpreter:
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
Perl simply wasn't designed to do that.
There are two common sources of awk for Windows, for example, that drop one exe to provide the interpreter:
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
Perl simply wasn't designed to do that.
Has a recent version of GAWK (Gnu AWK).
I think if you install git for Windows, you get AWK as well.
Yes, but you also get perl there too.
Had Perl held to a single binary, it could be inside busybox.
Perl cannot be inside busybox, and that hasn't been possible since 1993.