AWK.
A Unix scripting language for text processing, or the command line interface itself.
Meaning & usage
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.
Where this word comes from
From the initial letters of the surnames of its authors: Alfred Aho, Peter J. Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.