<sect2><title>Contents</title> <para>The Mawk package contains the mawk program.</para> </sect2> <sect2><title>Description</title> <sect3><title>mawk</title> <para>Mawk is an interpreter for the AWK Programming Language. The AWK language is useful for manipulation of data files, text retrieval and processing, and for prototyping and experimenting with algorithms.</para> </sect3> </sect2>