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awk, a program that you can use to select particular records in a file and perform operations upon them.
— The GNU Awk User’s Guide
Using awk you can:
- Manage small, personal databases
- Generate reports
- Validate data
- Produce indexes and perform other document-preparation tasks
- Experiment with algorithms that you can adapt later to other computer languages