# Operators are shown in decreasing order of precedence. # A blank line separates groups of operators with equal precedence. # All operators are left associative except: # . assignment operators # . conditional operator # . exponentiation # which are right associative. # # ( ) grouping # # $ field reference # # ++ increment (both prefix and postfix) # -- decrement (both prefix and postfix) # # ^ exponentiation # ** exponentiation (not all awk's) # # + unary plus # - unary minus # ! logical NOT # # * multiply # / divide # % modulus # # + add # - subtract # # string concatenation has no explicit operator # # < relational: less than # <= relational: less than or equal to # > relational: greater than # >= relational: greater than or equal to # != relational: not equal to # == relational: equal to # > redirection: output to file # >> redirection: append output to file # | redirection: pipe # |& redirection: coprocess (not all awk's) # # ~ regular expression: match # !~ regular expression: negated match # # in array membership # # && logical AND # # || logical OR # # ?: conditional expression # # = assignment # += addition assignment # -= subtraction assignment # *= multiplication assignment # /= division assignment # %= modulo assignment # ^= exponentiation assignment # **= exponentiation assignment (not all awk's)