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1 If you are like many computer users, you would frequently like to make changes
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2 in various text files wherever certain patterns appear, or extract data from
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3 parts of certain lines while discarding the rest. To write a program to do this
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4 in a language such as C or Pascal is a time-consuming inconvenience that may
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5 take many lines of code. The job is easy with awk, especially the GNU
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6 implementation: gawk.
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8 The package contains:
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10 * `awk` - A link to gawk
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11 * `gawk` - A program for manipulating text files; it is the GNU
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12 implementation of awk
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13 * `gawk-4.1.3` - A hard link to gawk
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14 * `igawk` - Gives gawk the ability to include files
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