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Awk scans input files for specified patterns and can perform an associated
action when a line of the file matches the pattern.

This is the version of awk described in "The AWK Programming Language",
by Al Aho, Brian Kernighan, and Peter Weinberger
(Addison-Wesley, 1988, ISBN 0-201-07981-X).
	http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/awkbook/index.html

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Josh Gilliam                    <josh@quick.net>
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