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(home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/")
(synopsis "A text scanning and processing language")
(description
- "Many computer users need to manipulate text files: extract and then
-operate on data from parts of certain lines while discarding the rest, make
-changes in various text files wherever certain patterns appear, and so on.
-To write a program to do these things in a language such as C or Pascal is a
-time-consuming inconvenience that may take many lines of code. The job is
-easy with awk, especially the GNU implementation: Gawk.
-
-The awk utility interprets a special-purpose programming language that makes
-it possible to handle many data-reformatting jobs with just a few lines of
-code.")
+ "Gawk is an implementation of Awk, a specialised programming language
+for the easy manipulation of formatted text, such as tables of data. The GNU
+implementation of Awk features a number of extensions beyond the traditional
+implementations, making writing powerful text manipulation scripts a simple
+task compared to writing similar programs in C.")
(license gpl3+)))