"AWK" meaning in English

See AWK in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Forms: Awk [alternative], awk [alternative]
Etymology: From the initial letters of the surnames of its authors: Alfred Aho, Peter J. Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan. Etymology templates: {{,}} , Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} AWK
  1. (computer languages) A Unix scripting language for text processing, or the command line interface itself. Wikipedia link: Alfred Aho, Brian Kernighan, Peter J. Weinberger

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