wok-6.x annotate gawk/description.txt @ rev 23188

updated motion (4.2.2 -> 4.3.0)
author Hans-G?nter Theisgen
date Fri Mar 20 08:50:20 2020 +0100 (2020-03-20)
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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.