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Language peer sets for AWK:
United States↑
United States/1979↑
Designed 1979 ↑
1970s languages ↑
Fourth generation↑
High Cold War↑
String and List Processing ↑
String and List Processing/1979↑
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.  

People:
Related languages
grep → AWK   Influence
AWK → DMAWK   Based on
AWK → hepawk   Extension of
AWK → Perl   Derivation of
References:
  • 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
  • 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
          in (1979) ACM Computing Reviews 20(09) September 1979
  • Gilchrist, M. J. (1990) Gilchrist, M. J. "AWK of Ages, Best for Me." pp85-??
          in (1990) Computer Language Magazine 7(1)
  • 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.
  • Angell, B. (1992) Angell, B. "Awk -- Just Another Language?" Computer Language Magazine 9(12): 55-?? 1992
          in Proceedings of the Winter 1991 USENIX Conference, (1991) Proceedings of the Winter 1991 USENIX Conference, Dallas, Texas, USA, January 1991. Usenix Association.
  • Robbins, A. (2001) Robbins, A. "Effective AWK programming". Sebastopol, CA, O'Reilly 2001
          in Proceedings of the Winter 1991 USENIX Conference, (1991) Proceedings of the Winter 1991 USENIX Conference, Dallas, Texas, USA, January 1991. Usenix Association.
  • (2002) Library of Congress Subject Headings A95
          in Proceedings of the Winter 1991 USENIX Conference, (1991) Proceedings of the Winter 1991 USENIX Conference, Dallas, Texas, USA, January 1991. Usenix Association.
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