Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 27th May 2008 13:08 UTC, submitted by Ward D
AWK is one of the most common UNIX tools to process text-based data in either files or datastreams. Written by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan, AWK "extensively uses the string datatype, associative arrays (that is, arrays indexed by key strings), and regular expressions." ComputerWorld interviewed Alfred Aho.
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2005-07-11
When I first used a Unix box back in 1990 I looked for a language to help me understand what this OS could do. The first thing I stumbled across was AWK. I loved it. I soon discovered a lot of other tools of course, but used AWK quite a bit for my work. Believe it or not, cc wasn't installed on this box back then (probably came on a tape or floppy, but I didn't think to look - sadly, besides, it was a machine for a customer), so scripting languages where the only way to go.
Must have another look at it again some day, I notice it is on OS X, I know Linux has it there too...