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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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