Awk vs Ack - What's the difference?
awk | ack |
(obsolete) Odd; out of order; perverse.
(obsolete) Wrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister; as, the awk end of a rod (the butt end).
(obsolete, UK, dialect) Clumsy in performance or manners; unhandy; not dexterous; awkward.
Awkward; uncomfortable.
(computing) A Unix scripting language or the command line interface itself.
(usually attributive, computing) Code written in or skill in using the awk language.
(internet) An acknowledgement either of a packet or a message received from a network.
As nouns the difference between awk and ack
is that awk is code written in or skill in using the awk language while ACK is an acknowledgement either of a packet or a message received from a network.As an adjective awk
is odd; out of order; perverse.As an adverb awk
is perversely; in the wrong way.As a proper noun awk
is a Unix scripting language or the command line interface itself.As an interjection ack is
acknowledged.awk
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- (Golding)
Proper noun
(en proper noun)Noun
(-)- I used C, Perl, the Bourne shell, and some awk and tcl to implement these projects.