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Awk is a text processing tool with a far more expressive manipulation language that sed: awk has named scalar and array variables, functions, and common imperative control structures.

Implementations and documentation

• The AWK Programming Language (the book by the authors of the tool)
• POSIX:2001 awk specification
• GNU Awk includes many extensions, including networking

Related tags

• text-processing Text processing in general, when you don't know which tool is best
• grep, sed, and other text processing tools
• perl, python for more general programming languages that can be used for text processing

Further reading

• Is there a basic tutorial for grep, awk and sed?
• Is there any alternative to grep's -A -B -C switches (to print few lines before and after )?
• How could I simplify this command to only use awk?
• AWK: Keep lines of at most 72 chars' length