awk

programming language included with the UNIX operating system that is designed for processing text files (the name is made from the initials of the three inventors)

AWK is a general purpose programming language that is designed for processing text-based data, either in files or data streams. The name AWK is derived from the surnames of its authors — Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan; however, it is not commonly pronounced as a string of separate letters but rather to sound the same as the name of the bird, auk (which acts as an emblem of the language such as on The AWK Programming Language book cover). awk, when written in all lowercase letters, refers to the Unix or Plan 9 program that runs other programs written in the AWK programming language.
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(adv.)
Perversely; in the wrong way.
  

(a.)
Wrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister; as, the awk end of a rod (the but end).
  

(a.)
Odd; out of order; perverse.
  

(a.)
Clumsy in performance or manners; unhandy; not dexterous; awkward.
  

1. <tool, language> (Named from the authors' initials) An interpreted language included with many versions of Unix for massaging text data, developed by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan in 1978. It is characterised by C-like syntax, declaration-free variables, associative arrays, and field-oriented text processing.
There is a GNU version called gawk and other varients including bawk, mawk, nawk, tawk. Perl was inspired in part by awk but is much more powerful.
Unix manual page: awk(1).
netlib WWW. netlib FTP.
["The AWK Programming Language" A. Aho, B. Kernighan, P. Weinberger, A-W 1988].
2. An expression which is awkward to manipulate through normal regexp facilities, for example, one containing a newline.
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(1995-10-06)

Airport Name: Wake Island Airfield
Airport Location: Wake Island, United States Minor Outlying Islands
IATA Code: AWK
ICAO Code: PWAK