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* Gawk: (gawk).           A text scanning and processing language.
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* awk: (gawk)Invoking gawk.           Text scanning and processing.
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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.

   This is Edition 3 of `GAWK: Effective AWK Programming: A User's
Guide for GNU Awk', for the 3.1.0 version of the GNU implementation of
AWK.

   Copyright (C) 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1996-2001 Free Software
Foundation, Inc.

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  a. "A GNU Manual"

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General Introduction
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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.

   This is Edition 3 of `GAWK: Effective AWK Programming: A User's
Guide for GNU Awk', for the 3.1.0 version of the GNU implementation of
AWK.

