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gawkWrite documentation as if whoever reads it is a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
Steve English, as quoted by Peter Langston
This chapter discusses advanced features in gawk.
It's a bit of a "grab bag" of items that are otherwise unrelated
to each other.
First, a command-line option allows gawk to recognize
nondecimal numbers in input data, not just in awk
programs. Next, two-way I/O, discussed briefly in earlier parts of this
Web page, is described in full detail, along with the basics
of TCP/IP networking and BSD portal files. Finally, gawk
can profile an awk program, making it possible to tune
it for performance.
Adding New Built-in Functions to gawk,
discusses the ability to dynamically add new built-in functions to
gawk. As this feature is still immature and likely to change,
its description is relegated to an appendix.
gawk for network programming.
gawk with BSD portals.
awk programs.