gawk: Intro Summary
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1 1.9 Summary
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1 * Programs in 'awk' consist of PATTERN-ACTION pairs.
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1 * An ACTION without a PATTERN always runs. The default ACTION for a
1 pattern without one is '{ print $0 }'.
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1 * Use either 'awk 'PROGRAM' FILES' or 'awk -f PROGRAM-FILE FILES' to
1 run 'awk'.
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1 * You may use the special '#!' header line to create 'awk' programs
1 that are directly executable.
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1 * Comments in 'awk' programs start with '#' and continue to the end
1 of the same line.
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1 * Be aware of quoting issues when writing 'awk' programs as part of a
1 larger shell script (or MS-Windows batch file).
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1 * You may use backslash continuation to continue a source line.
1 Lines are automatically continued after a comma, open brace,
1 question mark, colon, '||', '&&', 'do', and 'else'.
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