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AWK
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Awk awk âwk
English
Alternative forms
en Awk awk
Etymology
From the initial letters of the surnames of its authors: Alfred Aho, Peter J. Weinberger and Brian Kernighan.
Proper noun
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en programming language A Unix scripting language for text processing, or the command line interface itself.
en I used C, Perl, the Bourne shell, and some AWK and Tcl to implement these projects.
en 14 March 1982 w:Rockwell International Software Support Specialist w:Chicago Tribune final 135th year 73 Chicago, Ill. 15 10 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/387931273/ 4 1085-6706 7960243 An in-depth knowledge of SHELL operations, SED, AWK, as well as the “C” language is required.
en 25 November 1989 Unix The Vancouver Sun weekend 104 168 Vancouver, B.C. F9 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/495442492/ 5 0832-1299 14687962 You will bring with you: Ability to program in AWK, shell scripts, SQL, C.
en 23 October 2022 DB Global Technology Inc. Computer w:The News & Observer 158 296 Raleigh, N.C. 9B https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/891687512/ 1 2688-8807 11750106 Must incl 1 yr of exp working w/ source control (Git & SVN) & building tools (Maven & Gradle); writing utility scripts in Shell, Python, & AWK to automate manual tasks;
Further reading
AWK
en eponyms
en Unix