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| author | Steve Price <steve@FreeBSD.org> | 1998-11-10 02:05:13 +0000 |
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| committer | Steve Price <steve@FreeBSD.org> | 1998-11-10 02:05:13 +0000 |
| commit | ca1e19a2f5b8ff7d2bcf46d9b4f0f76b390f1ef2 (patch) | |
| tree | 6594de65211ebb4558e1f9d05267cbd344f90728 /lang/nawk/pkg-descr | |
| parent | 6db901ce31863bc9ad5317865052b89779d20f6b (diff) | |
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diff --git a/lang/nawk/pkg-descr b/lang/nawk/pkg-descr index 990b2b41d3e8..a2f84fc3c24a 100644 --- a/lang/nawk/pkg-descr +++ b/lang/nawk/pkg-descr @@ -1,8 +1,9 @@ -This is Brian Kernighan's awk, which is "the one true awk". -Awk scans input files for specified patterns and can perform -an associated action when a line of the file matches the -pattern. +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> |