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AWK

AWK is a programming language for text processing and extraction. It is a standard Unix tool included in the POSIX standard. Its name comes from the first letter of the surnames of its creators.

Implementations

• One True AWK: the reference AWK implementation as described in the official AWK reference manual, supports Unicode (UTF-8) and CSV.
• GNU AWK (gawk): bloated, turns AWK into a full-blown programming language with supports for sockets and internationalization.
• BusyBox's AWK: small, for embedded systems use; supports some extensions from gawk.
• goawk: implementation of AWK in Go.
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Examples

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Resources

• The AWK Programming Language: the official reference manual by Alfred Aho, Brian Kernighan and Peter Weinberger.

See Also

• Perl