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nawk

nawk [options ] [' program ' ] [files ] [variable = value ]

New version of awk , with additional capabilities. nawk is a pattern-matching language useful for manipulating data. See Chapter 11 for more information on nawk .

Options

-f file

Read program instructions from file instead of supplying program instructions on command line. This option may be specified multiple times; each file is concatenated with the others to make up the program source code.

-F regexp

Separate fields using regular expression regexp .

-v variable = value

Assign value to variable before executing ' program ' .

variable = value

Assign value to variable . When specified intermixed with files , the assignment occurs at that point in the processing.


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