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This is the version of awk described in "The AWK Programming Language",
by Al Aho, Brian Kernighan, and Peter Weinberger
(Addison-Wesley, 1988, ISBN 0-201-07981-X).

Awk scans input files for specified patterns and can perform an associated
action when a line of the file matches the pattern.

-- 
Josh Gilliam                    <josh@quick.net>