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gawk – implementation of the awk programming language

gawk is the GNU implementation of the Awk programming language, first developed for the UNIX operating system in the 1970s.

The awk utility interprets a special-purpose programming language that makes it possible to handle simple data-reformatting jobs with just a few lines of code.

This is free and open source software.

Website: www.gnu.org/software/gawk
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Developer: Paul Rubin, Paul Finlason, Richard Stallman
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

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gawk is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.


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