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Since its inception in 1977 awk<\/a> enjoyed a user base of thousands of people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Since LLMs can tell us how to use it now, it suddenly became millions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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