Wrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister; as, the awk end of a rod (the butt end)
Descriptive editing term--short for "awkward" Also coincidentally refers to a venerable text processing language from which Perl derived some of its ideas
(Aho, Weinberger, and Kernighan) - A programming language useful for its pattern-matching syntax, and often used for data retrieval and data transformation A GNU version is called Gawk
Descriptive editing term - short for "awkward" Also coincidentally refers to a venerable text processing language from which Perl derived some of its ideas
1 n [UNIX techspeak] An interpreted language for massaging text data developed by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan (the name is 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)'
Descriptive editing term--short for "awkward" Also coincidentally refers to a venerable text-processing language from which Perl derived some of its high-level ideas
A programming language that includes user-defined functions, multiple input streams, and computed regular expressions The name AWK comes from the initials of its designers - Alfred V Aho, Peter J Weinberger, and Brian W Kernighan
a powerful scripting language included with most implementations of UNIX, awk supplements the file-processing capabilities of the UNIX shells, including pattern-matching of fields and C-like structured programming constructs