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gawk - The GNU version of the awk text processing utility
- Description:
The gawk package contains the GNU version of awk, a text processing
utility. Awk interprets a special-purpose programming language to do
quick and easy text pattern matching and reformatting jobs.
Install the gawk package if you need a text processing utility. Gawk is
considered to be a standard Linux tool for processing text.
Sisnce version 4.1.0 the three executables gawk, pgawk, and dgawk, have been
merged into one, named just gawk. As a result:
* The -R option is gone
* Use -D to run the debugger. An optional file argument is a list of
commands to run first.
* Use -o to do pretty-printing only.
* Use -p to do profiling.
This considerably reduces gawk's "footprint" and eases the documentation burden
as well.
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