awk

(tool, language)(Named from the authors' initials) Aninterpreted language included with many versions of Unix formassaging text data, developed by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger,and Brian Kernighan in 1978. It is characterised by C-likesyntax, declaration-free variables, associative arrays, andfield-oriented text processing.

There is a GNU version called gawk and other varientsincluding bawk, mawk, nawk, tawk. Perl was inspiredin part by awk but is much more powerful.

Unix manual page: awk(1).

netlib WWW. netlib FTP.

["The AWK Programming Language" A. Aho, B. Kernighan,P. Weinberger, A-W 1988].

awk

(jargon)An expression which is awkward to manipulatethrough normal regexp facilities, for example, onecontaining a newline.

awk

(Aho Weinberger Kernighan) A Unix programming utility developed in 1977 by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger and Brian Kernighan. Due to its unique pattern-matching syntax, awk is often used in data retrieval and data transformation. Awk is widely used to search for a particular occurrence of text and perform some operation on it. Awk is an interpreted language, which has been ported to other computing environments, including DOS. See Gawk.

AWK

Acronym	Definition
AWK➣American Water Works Company Inc. (NYSE symbol)
AWK➣Awkward (proofreading)
AWK➣Andrew WK (band)
AWK➣Aho, Weinberger, Kernighan (Pattern Scanning Language)
AWK➣Aachener Werkzeugmaschinen Kolloquium (German: Aachen Machine Tool Colloquium; Aachen, Germany)
AWK➣Amstein, Walthert & Kleiner Group (consulting & engineering)
AWK➣Alabama White Knights (white supremacist group; Ku Klux Klan)