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Awk : \Awk\, adv.
Perversely; in the wrong way. --L'Estrange.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Awk : \Awk\ ([add]k), a. [OE. auk, awk (properly) turned away;
(hence) contrary, wrong, from Icel. ["o]figr, ["o]fugr,
afigr, turning the wrong way, fr. af off, away; cf. OHG.
abuh, Skr. ap[=a]c turned away, fr. apa off, away _ a root
ak, a[u^]k, to bend, from which come also E. angle, anchor.]
1. Odd; out of order; perverse. [Obs.]
2. Wrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister; as, the awk
end of a rod (the but end). [Obs.] --Golding.
3. Clumsy in performance or manners; unhandy; not dexterous;
awkward. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Awk :
1. (Named from the authors' initials) An
interpreted language included with many versions of Unix for
massaging text data, developed by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger,
and Brian Kernighan in 1978. It is characterised by C-like
syntax, declaration-free variables, associative arrays, and
field-oriented text processing.
There is a GNU version called gawk and other varients
including bawk, mawk, nawk, tawk. Perl was inspired
in part by awk but is much more powerful.
Unix manual page: awk(1).
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["The AWK Programming Language" A. Aho, B. Kernighan,
P. Weinberger, A-W 1988].
2. An expression which is awkward to manipulate
through normal regexp facilities, for example, one
containing a newline.
[{Jargon File]
(1995-10-06)
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Awk : al Aho, peter Weinberger, brian Kernighan (Unix)
Based on Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [Acronyms_Dictionary]:
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Awk : /awk/ 1. n. [Unix techspeak] An interpreted language for massaging
text data developed by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan
(the name derives from their initials). It is characterized by C-like
syntax, a declaration-free approach to variable typing and declarations,
associative arrays, and field-oriented text processing. See also Perl.
2. n. Editing term for an expression awkward to manipulate through
normal regexp facilities (for example, one containing a newline). 3.
vt. To process data using `awk(1)'.
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Based on Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [Acronyms_Dictionary]:
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