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\"The gawk packages contains the GNU version of awk, a text processingutility. Awk interprets a special-purpose programming language to doquick and easy text pattern matching and reformatting jobs. Gawk shouldbe upwardly compatible with the Bell Labs research version of awk andis almost completely compliant with the 1993 POSIX 1003.2 standard forawk. Install the gawk package if you need a text processing utility.Gawk is considered to be a standard Linux tool for processing text.\"