AWK
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| Stable release | POSIX |
|---|---|
| Typing discipline | none; can handle strings, integers and floating-point numbers; regular expressions |
| Paradigm | procedural |
| data-driven | |
| Designed by | Alfred Aho |
| Peter J. Weinberger | |
| Brian Kernighan | |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 834748 |
About AWK
AWK is a special-purpose programming language designed for text processing and typically used as a data extraction and reporting tool. It is a standard feature of most Unix-like operating systems.