Awk

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.]
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     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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Awk \Awk\, adv.
     Perversely; in the wrong way. --L'Estrange.
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From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

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

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  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)'.
  
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  awk
       
          1.  (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.  An expression which is awkward to manipulate
          through normal {regexp} facilities, for example, one
          containing a {newline}.
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (1995-10-06)