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Name

gawk

Synopsis

    gawk [options] 'script' [var=value ...] [files ...]
    gawk [options] -f scriptfile [var=value ...] [files ...]

The GNU Project’s implementation of the awk programming language. This is the standard version of awk on GNU/Linux systems. For more information see awk in the earlier section "Alphabetical Summary of Common Commands,” and Chapter 11.

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