category: Interpreters Base
sdesc: "GNU awk, a pattern scanning and processing language"
ldesc: "The gawk package contains the GNU version of awk, a text
processing utility. Awk interprets a special-purpose programming
language to do quick and easy text pattern matching and
reformatting jobs.

Install the gawk package if you need a text processing utility.
Gawk is considered to be a standard Linux tool for processing text."
homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/