
1) Aviary cry 2) Bird of prey, Cockney style 3) Comment from Polly 4) Cry from Iago 5) Editorial marking
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AWK is an interpreted programming language designed for text processing and typically used as a data extraction and reporting tool. It is a standard feature of most Unix-like operating systems. AWK was very popular in the late 1970s and 1980s, but from the 1990s has not retained its level of awareness in light of newer languages like Perl,{better ...
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• (a.) Odd; out of order; perverse. • (a.) Clumsy in performance or manners; unhandy; not dexterous; awkward. • (adv.) Perversely; in the wrong way. • (a.) Wrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister; as, the awk end of a rod (the but end).
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(Unix language named after its authors... Al Aho, Peter Weinberger and Brian Kernighan)
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Awk (ak)
adjective [ Middle English
auk ,
awk (properly) turned away; (hence) contrary, wrong, from Icelandic
öfigr ,
öfugr ,
afigr , turning the wrong way, from
af off, away; confer Old High German
abuh , Sanskrit
apāc turned away, fr...
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Awk adverb Perversely; in the wrong way.
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awkward
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Awk is a UNIX interpreted language for massaging text data developed by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan (the name is formed from their initials). It is characterised by a C-like syntax, a declaration-free approach to variable typing and declarations, associative arrays, and field-oriented text processing.
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