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Unix Software: Programming: Gawk

Description

Gawk is the GNU/FSF version of awk, a pattern-matching and extraction language. Gawk conforms to the POSIX standard for awk as well as implementing recent Bell Labs and GNU-specific extensions to awk.

Commands

gawk - the main awk interpreter.
igawk - gawk with include files.

Documentation

gawk.info - comprehensive Gawk information.

See Also

Perl - can do everything awk can and more.


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