Awk is a text processing language. For more information about awk, type man awk in a terminal. Awk is a great tool that will be covered in more detail later.
For an introduction, try this Awk tutorial. If using the GNU version of Awk (gawk), you can download the manual. If you are using GNU/Linux you are probably using gawk.
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