About AWK

AWK is a scripting language designed for text processing and typically used as a data extraction and reporting tool. Like sed and grep, it is a filter, and it is a standard feature of most Unix-like operating systems. The shell command that runs the AWK processor is named awk.

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AWK

data-driven programming language made by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger and Brian Kernighan

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