The GNU Awk User's Guide

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This file documents awk, a program that you can use to select particular records in a file and perform operations upon them. Copyright © 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.


This is Edition 3 of GAWK: Effective AWK Programming: A User's Guide for GNU Awk, for the 3.1.1 (or later) version of the GNU implementation of AWK.

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