Awk

Key facts

Programming language.screenshot caption

Usage of AWK in shell to check matching fields in two files

Programming language.logo

The-AWK-Programming-Language.svg

Programming language.logo_size

200px

Programming language.screenshot

Awk-example-usage-gimp.gif

Programming language.screenshot_size

250px

Programming language.name

AWK

Programming language.paradigm

Scripting, procedural, data-driven

Programming language.latest_release_version

IEEE Std 1003.1-2008 (POSIX) / 1985

Programming language.designer

Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan

Programming language.typing

none; can handle strings, integers and floating-point numbers; regular expressions

Programming language.implementations

awk, GNU Awk, mawk, nawk, MKS AWK, Thompson AWK (compiler), Awka (compiler)

Programming language.dialects

old awk oawk 1977, new awk nawk 1985, GNU Awk gawk

Programming language.influenced_by

C, sed, SNOBOL

Programming language.influenced

Tcl, AMPL, Perl, Korn Shell (ksh93, dtksh, tksh), Lua

Programming language.operating_system

Cross-platform

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Described at

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Source code

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