Gawk是GNU awk,是awk遵循开源的实现。而gawk是一款功能强大的文本处理工具,这款软件自成体系,实际上就是一个用于处理文本的编程语言工具。
#官方网站关于awk和gawk的文档
https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html
以下均来自CentOS7系统中关于Gawk的解释内容
Usage: gawk [POSIX or GNU style options] -f progfile [--] file ...
Usage: gawk [POSIX or GNU style options] [--] 'program' file ...
POSIX options: GNU long options: (standard)
-f progfile --file=progfile
-F fs --field-separator=fs
-v var=val --assign=var=val
Short options: GNU long options: (extensions)
-b --characters-as-bytes
-c --traditional
-C --copyright
-d[file] --dump-variables[=file]
-e 'program-text' --source='program-text'
-E file --exec=file
-g --gen-pot
-h --help
-L [fatal] --lint[=fatal]
-n --non-decimal-data
-N --use-lc-numeric
-O --optimize
-p[file] --profile[=file]
-P --posix
-r --re-interval
-S --sandbox
-t --lint-old
-V --version
To report bugs, see node `Bugs' in `gawk.info', which is
section `Reporting Problems and Bugs' in the printed version.
gawk is a pattern scanning and processing language.
By default it reads standard input and writes standard output.
Examples:
gawk '{ sum += $1 }; END { print sum }' file
gawk -F: '{ print $1 }' /etc/passwd
GAWK(1) Utility Commands GAWK(1)
NAME
gawk - pattern scanning and processing language
SYNOPSIS
gawk [ POSIX or GNU style options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ...
gawk [ POSIX or GNU style options ] [ -- ] program-text file ...
pgawk [ POSIX or GNU style options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ...
pgawk [ POSIX or GNU style options ] [ -- ] program-text file ...
dgawk [ POSIX or GNU style options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ...
DESCRIPTION
Gawk is the GNU Project's implementation of the AWK programming language. It conforms to the definition of the language in the POSIX 1003.1 Standard. This ver鈥[m
sion in turn is based on the description in The AWK Programming Language, by Aho, Kernighan, and Weinberger. Gawk provides the additional features found in the
current version of UNIX awk and a number of GNU-specific extensions.
The command line consists of options to gawk itself, the AWK program text (if not supplied via the -f or --file options), and values to be made available in the
ARGC and ARGV pre-defined AWK variables.
Pgawk is the profiling version of gawk. It is identical in every way to gawk, except that programs run more slowly, and it automatically produces an execution
profile in the file awkprof.out when done. See the --profile option, below.
Dgawk is an awk debugger. Instead of running the program directly, it loads the AWK source code and then prompts for debugging commands. Unlike gawk and pgawk,
dgawk only processes AWK program source provided with the -f option. The debugger is documented in GAWK: Effective AWK Programming.
OPTION FORMAT
Gawk options may be either traditional POSIX-style one letter options, or GNU-style long options. POSIX options start with a single “-”, while long options start
with “--”. Long options are provided for both GNU-specific features and for POSIX-mandated features.
Gawk- specific options are typically used in long-option form. Arguments to long options are either joined with the option by an = sign, with no intervening spa‐
ces, or they may be provided in the next command line argument. Long options may be abbreviated, as long as the abbreviation remains unique.
Additionally, each long option has a corresponding short option, so that the option's functionality may be used from within #! executable scripts.
OPTIONS
Gawk accepts the following options. Standard options are listed first, followed by options for gawk extensions, listed alphabetically by short option.
-f program-file
--file program-file
Read the AWK program source from the file program-file, instead of from the first command line argument. Multiple -f (or --file) options may be used.
-F fs
--field-separator fs
Use fs for the input field separator (the value of the FS predefined variable).
-v var=val
--assign var=val
Assign the value val to the variable var, before execution of the program begins. Such variable values are available to the BEGIN block of an AWK program.
-b
--characters-as-bytes
Treat all input data as single-byte characters. In other words, don't pay any attention to the locale information when attempting to process strings as
multibyte characters. The --posix option overrides this one.
-c
--traditional
Run in compatibility mode. In compatibility mode, gawk behaves identically to UNIX awk; none of the GNU-specific extensions are recognized. See GNU
EXTENSIONS, below, for more information.
-C
--copyright
Print the short version of the GNU copyright information message on the standard output and exit successfully.
-d[file]
--dump-variables[=file]
Print a sorted list of global variables, their types and final values to file. If no file is provided, gawk uses a file named awkvars.out in the current
directory.
Having a list of all the global variables is a good way to look for typographical errors in your programs. You would also use this option if you have a
large program with a lot of functions, and you want to be sure that your functions don't inadvertently use global variables that you meant to be local.
(This is a particularly easy mistake to make with simple variable names like i, j, and so on.)
-e program-text
--source program-text
Use program-text as AWK program source code. This option allows the easy intermixing of library functions (used via the -f and --file options) with source
code entered on the command line. It is intended primarily for medium to large AWK programs used in shell scripts.
-E file
--exec file
Similar to -f, however, this is option is the last one processed. This should be used with #! scripts, particularly for CGI applications, to avoid pass‐
ing in options or source code (!) on the command line from a URL. This option disables command-line variable assignments.
-g
--gen-pot
Scan and parse the AWK program, and generate a GNU .pot (Portable Object Template) format file on standard output with entries for all localizable strings
in the program. The program itself is not executed. See the GNU gettext distribution for more information on .pot files.
-h
--help Print a relatively short summary of the available options on the standard output. (Per the GNU Coding Standards, these options cause an immediate, suc‐
cessful exit.)
-L [value]
--lint[=value]
Provide warnings about constructs that are dubious or non-portable to other AWK implementations. With an optional argument of fatal, lint warnings become
fatal errors. This may be drastic, but its use will certainly encourage the development of cleaner AWK programs. With an optional argument of invalid,
only warnings about things that are actually invalid are issued. (This is not fully implemented yet.)
-n
--non-decimal-data
Recognize octal and hexadecimal values in input data. Use this option with great caution!
-N
--use-lc-numeric
This forces gawk to use the locale's decimal point character when parsing input data. Although the POSIX standard requires this behavior, and gawk does so
when --posix is in effect, the default is to follow traditional behavior and use a period as the decimal point, even in locales where the period is not the
decimal point character. This option overrides the default behavior, without the full draconian strictness of the --posix option.
-O
--optimize
Enable optimizations upon the internal representation of the program. Currently, this includes just simple constant-folding. The gawk maintainer hopes to
add additional optimizations over time.
-p[prof_file]
--profile[=prof_file]
Send profiling data to prof_file. The default is awkprof.out. When run with gawk, the profile is just a “pretty printed” version of the program. When
run with pgawk, the profile contains execution counts of each statement in the program in the left margin and function call counts for each user-defined
function.
-P
--posix
This turns on compatibility mode, with the following additional restrictions:
· \x escape sequences are not recognized.
· Only space and tab act as field separators when FS is set to a single space, newline does not.
· You cannot continue lines after ? and :.
· The synonym func for the keyword function is not recognized.
· The operators ** and **= cannot be used in place of ^ and ^=.
-r
--re-interval
Enable the use of interval expressions in regular expression matching (see Regular Expressions, below). Interval expressions were not traditionally avail‐
able in the AWK language. The POSIX standard added them, to make awk and egrep consistent with each other. They are enabled by default, but this option
remains for use with --traditional.
-R
--command file
Dgawk only. Read stored debugger commands from file.
-S
--sandbox
Runs gawk in sandbox mode, disabling the system() function, input redirection with getline, output redirection with print and printf, and loading dynamic
extensions. Command execution (through pipelines) is also disabled. This effectively blocks a script from accessing local resources (except for the files
specified on the command line).
-t
--lint-old
Provide warnings about constructs that are not portable to the original version of Unix awk.
-V
--version
Print version information for this particular copy of gawk on the standard output. This is useful mainly for knowing if the current copy of gawk on your
system is up to date with respect to whatever the Free Software Foundation is distributing. This is also useful when reporting bugs. (Per the GNU Coding
Standards, these options cause an immediate, successful exit.)
-- Signal the end of options. This is useful to allow further arguments to the AWK program itself to start with a “-”. This provides consistency with the
argument parsing convention used by most other POSIX programs.
In compatibility mode, any other options are flagged as invalid, but are otherwise ignored. In normal operation, as long as program text has been supplied,
unknown options are passed on to the AWK program in the ARGV array for processing. This is particularly useful for running AWK programs via the “#!” executable
interpreter mechanism.
AWK PROGRAM EXECUTION
An AWK program consists of a sequence of pattern-action statements and optional function definitions.
@include "filename" pattern { action statements }
function name(parameter list) { statements }
Gawk first reads the program source from the program-file(s) if specified, from arguments to --source, or from the first non-option argument on the command line.
The -f and --source options may be used multiple times on the command line. Gawk reads the program text as if all the program-files and command line source texts
had been concatenated together. This is useful for building libraries of AWK functions, without having to include them in each new AWK program that uses them.
It also provides the ability to mix library functions with command line programs.
In addition, lines beginning with @include may be used to include other source files into your program, making library use even easier.
The environment variable AWKPATH specifies a search path to use when finding source files named with the -f option. If this variable does not exist, the default
path is ".:/usr/local/share/awk". (The actual directory may vary, depending upon how gawk was built and installed.) If a file name given to the -f option con‐
tains a “/” character, no path search is performed.
Gawk executes AWK programs in the following order. First, all variable assignments specified via the -v option are performed. Next, gawk compiles the program
into an internal form. Then, gawk executes the code in the BEGIN block(s) (if any), and then proceeds to read each file named in the ARGV array (up to
ARGV[ARGC]). If there are no files named on the command line, gawk reads the standard input.
If a filename on the command line has the form var=val it is treated as a variable assignment. The variable var will be assigned the value val. (This happens
after any BEGIN block(s) have been run.) Command line variable assignment is most useful for dynamically assigning values to the variables AWK uses to control
how input is broken into fields and records. It is also useful for controlling state if multiple passes are needed over a single data file.
If the value of a particular element of ARGV is empty (""), gawk skips over it.
For each input file, if a BEGINFILE rule exists, gawk executes the associated code before processing the contents of the file. Similarly, gawk executes the code
associated with ENDFILE after processing the file.
For each record in the input, gawk tests to see if it matches any pattern in the AWK program. For each pattern that the record matches, the associated action is
executed. The patterns are tested in the order they occur in the program.
Finally, after all the input is exhausted, gawk executes the code in the END block(s) (if any).
Command Line Directories
According to POSIX, files named on the awk command line must be text files. The behavior is ``undefined'' if they are not. Most versions of awk treat a direc‐
tory on the command line as a fatal error.
Starting with version 4.0 of gawk, a directory on the command line produces a warning, but is otherwise skipped. If either of the --posix or --traditional
options is given, then gawk reverts to treating directories on the command line as a fatal error.
VARIABLES, RECORDS AND FIELDS
AWK variables are dynamic; they come into existence when they are first used. Their values are either floating-point numbers or strings, or both, depending upon
how they are used. AWK also has one dimensional arrays; arrays with multiple dimensions may be simulated. Several pre-defined variables are set as a program
runs; these are described as needed and summarized below.
Records
Normally, records are separated by newline characters. You can control how records are separated by assigning values to the built-in variable RS. If RS is any
single character, that character separates records. Otherwise, RS is a regular expression. Text in the input that matches this regular expression separates the
record. However, in compatibility mode, only the first character of its string value is used for separating records. If RS is set to the null string, then
records are separated by blank lines. When RS is set to the null string, the newline character always acts as a field separator, in addition to whatever value FS
may have.
Fields
As each input record is read, gawk splits the record into fields, using the value of the FS variable as the field separator. If FS is a single character, fields
are separated by that character. If FS is the null string, then each individual character becomes a separate field. Otherwise, FS is expected to be a full regu‐
lar expression. In the special case that FS is a single space, fields are separated by runs of spaces and/or tabs and/or newlines. (But see the section POSIX
COMPATIBILITY, below). NOTE: The value of IGNORECASE (see below) also affects how fields are split