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Date:      Sat, 15 Apr 2017 23:10:34 +0200
From:      Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To:        Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: awk help
Message-ID:  <20170415231034.ceac45f8.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Sat, 15 Apr 2017 16:46:15 -0400, Ernie Luzar wrote:
> In awk talk what is this called
> /^Address/
> /^ Hits/

In awk general: patterns. In this case, regular expressions.
They can prepend a block of instructions or appear in sub()
and gsub() functions as arguments.



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Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...



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