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gawk - String manipulation language

The awk utility interprets a special-purpose programming language that makes it possible to handle simple data-reformatting jobs with just a few lines of code. It is a free version of 'awk.'

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/gawk.html
Source tarballhttp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk/gawk-3.1.3.tar.gz
Version 3.1.3 (stable) released on 2003-07-09
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is a GNU package.

Documentation
User manual included in HTML, texinfo, dvi, and PostScript formats from http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk-3.1.1/gawk.html ; Man page and reference card available in PostScript format
Support contacts

Developer Newscomp.lang.awk
Bug List<bug-gawk@gnu.org>

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Related information

Interfacescommand line
Programsigawk
Source languagesC
Related programsDiffutils, Grep, Patch

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-06-22
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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