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Language peer sets for AWK:
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High Cold War↑
String and List Processing ↑
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String and List Processing/us ↑

AWK(ID:1844/awk001)

String processing language

alternate simple view

Country: United States
Designed 1979
Published: 1979
Sammet category: String and List Processing

for Aho, Weinberger, Kernighan

Designed to search, match patterns, and to perform action on files. Scans lines one at a time for matches and patterns specified. Thus, an AWK program consists of a number of patterns and associated actions.

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Related languages

grep	→	AWK		Influence
		AWK	→DMAWK	Based on
		AWK	→hepawk	Extension of
		AWK	→Perl	Derivation of

References:

1979

Aho, Alfred, V.; Kernighan, Brian W.; Weinberger, (1979) Aho, Alfred, V.; Kernighan, Brian W.; Weinberger, Peter J. "AWK — A pattern scanning and processing language" Abstract
in (1979) Software - Practice and experience 9(04) April 1979
Stanton (1979) Stanton, R R, review of Aho et al (1979) Extract: Review
in (1979) ACM Computing Reviews 20(09) September 1979

1988

Aho, Alfred, V.; Kernighan, Brian W.; Weinberger, (1988) Aho, Alfred, V.; Kernighan, Brian W.; Weinberger, Peter J. "The AWK programming language" Reading, Mass., Addison-Wesley Pub. Co. 1988

1990

Gilchrist, M. J. (1990) Gilchrist, M. J. "AWK of Ages, Best for Me." pp85-??
in (1990) Computer Language Magazine 7(1)

1991

Spencer, Henry (1991) Spencer, Henry "AWK as a major systems programming language"
in Proceedings of the Winter 1991 USENIX Conference, (1991) Proceedings of the Winter 1991 USENIX Conference, Dallas, Texas, USA, January 1991. Usenix Association.

1992

Angell, B. (1992) Angell, B. "Awk -- Just Another Language?" Computer Language Magazine 9(12): 55-?? 1992

2001

Robbins, A. (2001) Robbins, A. "Effective AWK programming". Sebastopol, CA, O'Reilly 2001

2002

(2002) Library of Congress Subject Headings A95

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