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    It's a Linux command-line program (awk). It's pre-installed practically everywhere, it's very powerful for string processing, but it also uses a fairly complex syntax.

    As a result, not many people know how to really make use of it, but awk '{print $1}' is something you encounter fairly quickly when you need to get the first word in each line.

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