AWK
\ˈɔːk], \ˈɔːk], \ˈɔː_k]\
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Odd; out of order; perverse.
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Wrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister; as, the awk end of a rod (the but end).
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Clumsy in performance or manners; unhandy; not dexterous; awkward.
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Perversely; in the wrong way.
By Oddity Software
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Odd; out of order; perverse.
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Wrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister; as, the awk end of a rod (the but end).
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Clumsy in performance or manners; unhandy; not dexterous; awkward.
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Perversely; in the wrong way.
By Noah Webster.
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1. (Named from the authors' initials) Aninterpreted language included with many versions of Unix formassaging text data, developed by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger,and Brian Kernighan in 1978. It is characterised by C-likesyntax, declaration-free variables, associative arrays, andfield-oriented text processing.There is a GNU version called gawk and other varientsincluding bawk, mawk, nawk, tawk. Perl was inspiredin part by awk but is much more powerful.Unix manual page: awk(1).netlib WWW(http://plan9.att.com/netlib/research/index.html). netlibFTP (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 manipulatethrough normal regexp facilities, for example, onecontaining a newline.
By Denis Howe
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