# AWK

> [AWK][awk] scripts.

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The [AWK][awk] programming language is a data-driven scripting language consisting of a set of actions to be performed against streams of textual data.

This directory is intended as a common location for storing [AWK][awk] scripts which are used in project tooling. Scripts may be used for a variety of data processing tasks, including the computation of simple statistics over text streams.

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[awk]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWK

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