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awk
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/awk/ 1. n. [Unix techspeak] An interpreted language for massaging text data
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developed by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan (the name
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derives from their initials). It is characterized by C-like syntax, a
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declaration-free approach to variable typing and declarations, associative
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arrays, and field-oriented text processing. See also Perl. 2. n. Editing
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term for an expression awkward to manipulate through normal regexp
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facilities (for example, one containing a newline ). 3. vt. To process data
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using awk (1).
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