HP-UX 11i System Administration Handbook and Toolkit, Second Edition

awk

awk - Pattern-processing language.

 awk(1) awk(1) NAME awk - pattern-directed scanning and processing language SYNOPSIS awk [-Ffs] [-v var=value] [program | -f progfile ...] [file ...] DESCRIPTION awk scans each input file for lines that match any of a set of patterns specified literally in program or in one or more files specified as -f progfile. With each pattern there can be an associated action that is to be performed when a line in a file matches the pattern. Each line is matched against the pattern portion of every pattern-action statement, and the associated action is performed for each matched pattern. The file name - means the standard ...