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| author | Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@slitaz.org> |
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| date | Wed Dec 26 11:05:26 2012 +0100 (2012-12-26) |
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| children | c963361d3d54 |
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1 If you are like many computer users, you would frequently like to make changes
2 in various text files wherever certain patterns appear, or extract data from
3 parts of certain lines while discarding the rest. To write a program to do this
4 in a language such as C or Pascal is a time-consuming inconvenience that may
5 take many lines of code. The job is easy with awk, especially the GNU
6 implementation: gawk.