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
field-oriented text processing.
There is a
GNU version called
gawk and other varients
in part by awk but is much more powerful.
["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
(1995-10-06)