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Other Features of awk

The awk language provides a number of predefined, or built-in variables, which your programs can use to get information from awk. There are other variables your program can set to control how awk processes your data.

In addition, awk provides a number of built-in functions for doing common computational and string related operations.

As we develop our presentation of the awk language, we introduce most of the variables and many of the functions. They are defined systematically in section Built-in Variables, and section Built-in Functions.


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