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mawk-1.3.4.20260302

fast POSIX-compliant awk

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Description

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

Package information

Ports path
lang/mawk
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Jeremie Courreges-Anglas <jca@wxcvbn.org>
Categories
lang
Available flavors
None listed

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