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11.8 Group Listing of awk Functions and Commands

The following table classifies awk functions and commands.

Arithmetic FunctionsString FunctionsControl Flow StatementsI/O ProcessingTime FunctionsProgramming
atan2[3]gensub[4]breakclose[3]strftime[4]delete[3]
cos[3]gsub[3]continuefflush[5]systime[4]function[3]
expindexdo/while[3]getline[3] system[3]
intlengthexitnext  
logmatch[3]fornextfile[5]  
rand[3]splitifprint  
sin[3]sprintfreturn[3]printf  
sqrtsub[3]while   
srand[3]substr    
 tolower[3]    
 toupper[3]    

[3] Available in nawk.

[4] Available in gawk.

[5] Available in Bell Labs awk and gawk.


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