.TH AX 1 "July 2016" "Manual page for ax" .SH NAME .B ax \- evaluate an awk expression .SH SYNOPSIS .B ax '2.0+3.0' .br .B ax %.2f 'sin(2)' .SH DESCRIPTION .B ax evaluates an expression given on the command line with awk(1) and prints its result using awk's printf, with an optional format specified preceding the expression. .SH AUTHOR Tom Ryder