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mawk is an interpreter for the AWK Programming Language. The AWK language is
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useful for manipulation of data files, text retrieval and processing, and for
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prototyping and experimenting with algorithms. mawk is a new awk meaning it
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implements the AWK language as defined in Aho, Kernighan and Weinberger, The
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AWK Programming Language, Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1988 (hereafter referred
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to as the AWK book.) mawk conforms to the Posix 1003.2 (draft 11.3) definition
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of the AWK language which contains a few features not described in the AWK
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book, and mawk provides a small number of extensions.
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1999-01-18 05:50:26 +01:00
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WWW: http://invisible-island.net/mawk
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