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| author | Hans-G?nter Theisgen |
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| date | Wed May 13 07:41:00 2020 +0100 (2020-05-13) |
| parents | 8e758a7a90c9 |
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1 If you are like many computer users, you would frequently like to make changes
2 in various text files wherever certain patterns appear, or extract data from
3 parts of certain lines while discarding the rest. To write a program to do this
4 in a language such as C or Pascal is a time-consuming inconvenience that may
5 take many lines of code. The job is easy with awk, especially the GNU
6 implementation: gawk.
8 The package contains:
10 * `awk` - A link to gawk
11 * `gawk` - A program for manipulating text files; it is the GNU
12 implementation of awk
13 * `gawk-4.1.3` - A hard link to gawk
14 * `igawk` - Gives gawk the ability to include files