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updated libcap-ng and libcap-ng-dev (0.7.9 -> 0.8.2)
author Hans-G?nter Theisgen
date Tue Mar 15 10:51:40 2022 +0100 (2022-03-15)
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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.