AWK

AWK is a programming language designed for text processing and typically used as a data extraction and reporting tool.

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What is AWK?

If you are like many computer users, you would frequently like to make changes in various text files wherever certain patterns appear, or extract data from parts of certain lines while discarding the rest. To write a program to do this in a language such as C or Pascal is a time-consuming inconvenience that may take many lines of code. The job is easy with awk.

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PortableAWK can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Support for scriptingAWK supports scripts and macros to automate or customize tasks.

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LicensingOpen Source and Free product.
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