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gawk: gawk (pattern scanning and processing language)
gawk:
gawk: Gawk is the GNU Project's implementation of the AWK programming
gawk: language.  It conforms to the definition of the language in the POSIX
gawk: 1003.2 Command Language And Utilities Standard.  This version in turn
gawk: is based on the description in The AWK Programming Language, by Aho,
gawk: Kernighan, and Weinberger, with the additional features found in the
gawk: System V Release 4 version of UNIX awk.  Gawk also provides more
gawk: recent Bell Labs awk extensions, and some GNU-specific extensions.
gawk:
gawk: