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diff --git a/gnu/packages/gawk.scm b/gnu/packages/gawk.scm index aff856d9f3..06895f20dd 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/gawk.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/gawk.scm @@ -65,14 +65,9 @@ (home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/") (synopsis "A text scanning and processing language") (description - "Many computer users need to manipulate text files: extract and then -operate on data from parts of certain lines while discarding the rest, make -changes in various text files wherever certain patterns appear, and so on. -To write a program to do these things in a language such as C or Pascal is a -time-consuming inconvenience that may take many lines of code. The job is -easy with awk, especially the GNU implementation: Gawk. - -The awk utility interprets a special-purpose programming language that makes -it possible to handle many data-reformatting jobs with just a few lines of -code.") + "Gawk is an implementation of Awk, a specialised programming language +for the easy manipulation of formatted text, such as tables of data. The GNU +implementation of Awk features a number of extensions beyond the traditional +implementations, making writing powerful text manipulation scripts a simple +task compared to writing similar programs in C.") (license gpl3+))) |