awk

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1. awk - Adjective

2. awk - Adverb

4. Awk - Proper noun

Meaning

Odd; out of order; perverse.

Wrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister; as, the awk end of a rod (the but end).

Clumsy in performance or manners; unhandy; not dexterous; awkward.

Perversely; in the wrong way.

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Adding zero to a variable is an AWK idiom for coercing it from a string to a numeric value. Source: Internet

FreeBSD before version 5.0 also included gawk version 3.0, but subsequent versions of FreeBSD use BWK awk to avoid the more restrictive GNU General Public License (GPL), as well as for its technical characteristics. Source: Internet

GNU AWK has been maintained solely by Arnold Robbins since 1994. citation Brian Kernighan 's nawk (New AWK) source was first released in 1993 unpublicized, and publicly since the late 1990s; many BSD systems use it to avoid GPL license. Source: Internet

AWK was preceded by sed (1974). Source: Internet

FILENAME contains the current filename. awk has no explicit concatenation operator; two adjacent strings concatenate them. Source: Internet

An AWK program is a sequence of pattern-action statements. Source: Internet

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