To report bugs, see node `Bugs' in `gawk.info' which is section `Reporting Problems and Bugs' in the printed version. This same information may be found at https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Bugs.html. PLEASE do NOT try to report bugs by posting in comp.lang.awk, or by using a web forum such as Stack Overflow. gawk is a pattern scanning and processing language. By default it reads standard input and writes standard output. Examples: gawk '{ sum += $1 }; END { printsum }' file gawk -F: '{ print$1 }' /etc/passwd