wok-6.x annotate gawk/description.txt @ rev 16997
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| author | Aleksej Bobylev <al.bobylev@gmail.com> |
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| date | Sun Aug 10 21:05:42 2014 +0000 (2014-08-10) |
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| samuel_trassare@11761 | 1 If you are like many computer users, you would frequently like to make changes |
| samuel_trassare@11761 | 2 in various text files wherever certain patterns appear, or extract data from |
| samuel_trassare@11761 | 3 parts of certain lines while discarding the rest. To write a program to do this |
| samuel_trassare@11761 | 4 in a language such as C or Pascal is a time-consuming inconvenience that may |
| samuel_trassare@11761 | 5 take many lines of code. The job is easy with awk, especially the GNU |
| samuel_trassare@11761 | 6 implementation: gawk. |