Category

Linux Command


Usage

gawk [ POSIX or GNU style options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ...


Manual

Gawk is the GNU Project’s implementation of the AWK programming lan-
guage. It conforms to the definition of the language in the POSIX
1003.1 Standard. This version in turn is based on the description in
The AWK Programming Language, by Aho, Kernighan, and Weinberger, with
the additional features found in the System V Release 4 version of UNIX
awk. Gawk also provides more recent Bell Laboratories awk extensions,
and a number of GNU-specific extensions.

Pgawk is the profiling version of gawk. It is identical in every way
to gawk, except that programs run more slowly, and it automatically
produces an execution profile in the file awkprof.out when done. See
the --profile option, below.

The command line consists of options to gawk itself, the AWK program
text (if not supplied via the -f or --file options), and values to be
made available in the ARGC and ARGV pre-defined AWK variables.


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