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author | Christophe Lincoln <pankso@slitaz.org> |
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date | Thu Apr 05 13:57:05 2012 +0200 (2012-04-05) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/gawk/description.txt Thu Apr 05 13:57:05 2012 +0200 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ 1.4 +If you are like many computer users, you would frequently like to make changes 1.5 +in various text files wherever certain patterns appear, or extract data from 1.6 +parts of certain lines while discarding the rest. To write a program to do this 1.7 +in a language such as C or Pascal is a time-consuming inconvenience that may 1.8 +take many lines of code. The job is easy with awk, especially the GNU 1.9 +implementation: gawk.