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14 The AWK Pattern Processing Language

In This Chapter

getline: Controlling Input

Coprocess: Two-Way I/O

Getting Input from a Network

Objectives

After reading this chapter you should be able to:

Run a gawk program from the command line and from a file

Select lines from a file using gawk

Write a report using gawk

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