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mawk is an interpreter for the AWK Programming Language. The AWK
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language is useful for manipulation of data files, text retrieval and
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processing, and for prototyping and experimenting with algorithms. mawk
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is a new awk meaning it implements the AWK language as defined in Aho,
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Kernighan and Weinberger, The AWK Programming Language, Addison-Wesley
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Publishing, 1988 ("the AWK book".)
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mawk conforms to the Posix 1003.2 (draft 11.3) definition of the AWK
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language which contains a few features not described in the AWK book,
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and mawk provides a small number of extensions.
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