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* Gawk: (gawk).                 A text scanning and processing language.
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* awk: (gawk)Invoking gawk.                     Text scanning and processing.
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   Copyright (C) 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000,
2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Free
Software Foundation, Inc.


   This is Edition 4 of `GAWK: Effective AWK Programming: A User's
Guide for GNU Awk', for the 4.0.1 (or later) version of the GNU
implementation of AWK.

   Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
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Invariant Sections being "GNU General Public License", the Front-Cover
texts being (a) (see below), and with the Back-Cover Texts being (b)
(see below).  A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
"GNU Free Documentation License".

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