wok-next annotate gawk/description.txt @ rev 21068
Rebuild Perl modules
| author | Aleksej Bobylev <al.bobylev@gmail.com> |
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| date | Tue Dec 11 23:38:35 2018 +0200 (2018-12-11) |
| parents | 8e758a7a90c9 |
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| al@19561 | 1 If you are like many computer users, you would frequently like to make changes |
| al@19561 | 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 |
| al@19561 | 4 in a language such as C or Pascal is a time-consuming inconvenience that may |
| al@19561 | 5 take many lines of code. The job is easy with awk, especially the GNU |
| al@19561 | 6 implementation: gawk. |
| al@19561 | 7 |
| al@19561 | 8 The package contains: |
| al@19561 | 9 |
| al@19561 | 10 * `awk` - A link to gawk |
| al@19561 | 11 * `gawk` - A program for manipulating text files; it is the GNU |
| al@19561 | 12 implementation of awk |
| al@19561 | 13 * `gawk-4.1.3` - A hard link to gawk |
| al@19561 | 14 * `igawk` - Gives gawk the ability to include files |