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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	Awk \Awk\, adv.
   Perversely; in the wrong way. --L'Estrange.
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	AWK
     al Aho, peter Weinberger, brian Kernighan (Unix)

	

	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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	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)