awk : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: awk	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for awk
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Awk \Awk\, adv. Perversely; in the wrong way. --L'Estrange.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Awk \Awk\ ([add]k), a. [OE. auk, awk (properly) turned away; (hence) contrary, wrong, from Icel. [94]figr, [94]fugr, afigr, turning the wrong way, fr. af off, away; cf. OHG. abuh, Skr. ap[be]c turned away, fr. apa off, away + a root ak, a[ucr]k, to bend, from which come also E. angle, anchor.] 1. Odd; out of order; perverse. [Obs.] 2. Wrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister; as, the awk end of a rod (the but end). [Obs.] --Golding. 3. Clumsy in performance or manners; unhandy; not dexterous; awkward. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [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)'. = B =
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [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)