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awk

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Odd; out of order; perverse.
  • (obsolete) Wrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister; as, the awk end of a rod (the butt end).
    • (Golding)
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) Clumsy in performance or manners; unhandy; not dexterous; awkward.
  • Awkward; uncomfortable.

    • Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (label) Perversely; in the wrong way.

    • Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (computing) A Unix scripting language or the command line interface itself.

    • Noun

    (-)
  • (usually attributive, computing) Code written in or skill in using the awk language.
    • I used C, Perl, the Bourne shell, and some awk and tcl to implement these projects.

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