AWK

See also: Awk, awk, and âwk

English

Alternative forms

• Awk, awk

Etymology

From the initial letters of the surnames of its authors: Alfred Aho, Peter J. Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan.

Proper noun

AWK

1. (computer languages) A Unix scripting language for text processing, or the command line interface itself.

   I used C, Perl, the Bourne shell, and some AWK and Tcl to implement these projects.

   • 1982 March 14, Rockwell International, “Software Support Specialist”, in Chicago Tribune, final edition, 135th year, number 73, Chicago, Ill., →ISSN, →OCLC, section 15, page 10, column 4:

     An in-depth knowledge of SHELL operations, SED, AWK, as well as the “C” language is required.

   • 1989 November 25, “Unix”, in The Vancouver Sun, weekend edition, volume 104, number 168, Vancouver, B.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page F9, column 5:

     You will bring with you: […] Ability to program in AWK, shell scripts, SQL, C.

   • 2022 October 23, DB Global Technology Inc., “Computer”, in The News & Observer, volume 158, number 296, Raleigh, N.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9B, column 1:

     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 on Wikipedia.Wikipedia