awk

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awk - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Awk \Awk\ ([add]k), a. [OE. auk, awk (properly) turned away;
     (hence) contrary, wrong, from Icel. ["o]figr, ["o]fugr,
     afigr, turning the wrong way, fr. af off, away; cf. OHG.
     abuh, Skr. ap[=a]c turned away, fr. apa off, away + a root
     ak, a[u^]k, to bend, from which come also E. angle, anchor.]
     [1913 Webster]
     1. Odd; out of order; perverse. [Obs.]
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     2. Wrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister; as, the awk
        end of a rod (the but end). [Obs.] --Golding.
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     3. Clumsy in performance or manners; unhandy; not dexterous;
        awkward. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
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  Awk \Awk\, adv.
     Perversely; in the wrong way. --L'Estrange.
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awk - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  awk
  
     1. <tool, language> (Named from the authors' initials) An
     interpreted language included with many versions of Unix for
     massaging text data, developed by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger,
     and Brian Kernighan in 1978.  It is characterised by C-like
     syntax, declaration-free variables, associative arrays, and
     field-oriented text processing.
  
     There is a GNU version called gawk and other varients
     including bawk, mawk, nawk, tawk.  Perl was inspired
     in part by awk but is much more powerful.
  
     Unix manual page: awk(1).
  
     netlib WWW (http://plan9.att.com/netlib/research/index.html)
     .  netlib FTP (ftp://netlib.att.com/netlib/research/)
     .
  
     ["The AWK Programming Language" A. Aho, B. Kernighan,
     P. Weinberger, A-W 1988].
  
     2. <jargon> An expression which is awkward to manipulate
     through normal regexp facilities, for example, one
     containing a newline.
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (1995-10-06)
  

awk - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  awk
   /awk/
  
     1. n. [Unix techspeak] An interpreted language for massaging text
  data
     developed by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan (the
     name derives 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).
  

awk - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :

  AWK
         al Aho, peter Weinberger, brian Kernighan (Unix)