awk

comparative more awk · superlative most awk

1. obsoleteOdd; out of order; perverse.
2. obsoleteWrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister.

   the awk end of hir charmed rod

   1567, Arthur Golding, Metamorphoses

3. UKdialectalobsoleteClumsy in performance or manners; not dexterous; awkward.

   […] whose wild and madbrain humour nothing fitteth so just, as the stalest dudgen or absurdest balductum, that they or their mates can invent in odd and awk speeches […]

   1815 Sir Egerton Brydges, Archaica: Harvey's Four letters, and sonnets, touching Robert Greene; Pierce's supererogation; [and] New letter of notable contents. Brathwaite's Essays upon the five senses, From the private press of Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, printed by T. Davison, p142

   Synonyms: unhandy

4. USslangAwkward; uncomfortable.

comparative more awk · superlative most awk

1. obsoletePerversely; in the wrong way.

   Ill huſbandry drowſeth at fortune ſo awke, / good huſbandry rowſeth him ſelfe like a hawke.

   1570, Thomas Tusser, “Comparing Good Husband with Vnthrift His Brother, the Better Descerneth the Tone from the Tother”, in A Hundrethe Good Pointes of Husbandrie, Lately Maried vnto a Hundrethe Good Points of Huswifry Newly Corrected and Amplified […], revised edition, London: […] [Henry Denham? for] Rychard Tottyl, published 1571, →OCLC, stanza 13, folio 22, verso

1. Alternative letter-case form of AWK.

   Must have exp w/ shell, incl Bash, & command line text processing incl grep, awk, & sed.

   2022 October 23, Red Hat, Inc., “Senior Software Engineer”, in The News & Observer, volume 158, number 296, Raleigh, N.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9B, column 2

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   One thing awk is good for is picking out and possibly rearranging columns within command output.

   2002, Æleen Frisch, Essential System Administration: Tools and Techniques for Linux and Unix Administration, 3rd edition, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 77

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of och.

alternative Awk · alternative awk

1. computer languagesA Unix scripting language for text processing, or the command line interface itself.

   I used C, Perl, the Bourne shell, and some AWK and Tcl to implement these projects.

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   An in-depth knowledge of SHELL operations, SED, AWK, as well as the “C” language is required.

   1982 March 14, Rockwell International, “Software Support Specialist”, in Chicago Tribune, final edition, 135th year, number 73, Chicago, Ill., →ISSN, →OCLC, section 15, page 10, column 4

   You will bring with you: […] Ability to program in AWK, shell scripts, SQL, C.

   1989 November 25, “Unix”, in The Vancouver Sun, weekend edition, volume 104, number 168, Vancouver, B.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page F9, column 5

   Must incl 1 yr of exp working w/ source control (Git & SVN) & building tools (Maven & Gradle); […] writing utility scripts in Shell, Python, & AWK to automate manual tasks; […]

   2022 October 23, DB Global Technology Inc., “Computer”, in The News & Observer, volume 158, number 296, Raleigh, N.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9B, column 1

1. Alternative letter-case form of AWK.

   Shell and Awk scripts are highly desirable.

   1995 April 1, CHU Computer Systems Manager, “Computer—DOS LAN, and UNIX Support”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, number 49,166, Sydney, N.S.W., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 52A, column 2

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   Growing company needs an experienced part-time computer person familiar in Unix, Awk Programming and Script Programming.

   1992 May 1, Ed Matthews, “Computer Person”, in Lancaster New Era, 116th year, number 36,035, Lancaster, Pa., →OCLC, classified section, page 9, column 2

   […] Unix Shell Script (Ksh,Csh), Awk, JavaScript, JQuery,^([sic]) JSON, Oracle, SQL Server, HTML, XML, Windows NT, Linux/Unix

   2021 March 14, Nexgen Savvy Solutions LLC, “Computer Professionals Multiple Openings for Senior positions -- Software Developer”, in The Charlotte Observer, volume 152, number 73, Charlotte, N.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15B, column 2

   2 yrs exp must incl […] Unix commands, including Cat, Awk, and Grep; […]

   2024 June 30, KPMG LLP, “Advisory - Manager(s)”, in The Baltimore Sun, 187th year, number 182, Baltimore, Md., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 16, column 1