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10 Language-to-English DictionariesAwk
Pronunciation / Transliteration: /awk/
"O comando awk é muito útil para manipulação de texto."
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
A pattern-directed scanning and processing language designed for text extraction and reporting, widely used in Unix shell scripts.
"He used an awk script to quickly parse the server log files and extract IP addresses."
- 1
To process text or data files using the AWK programming language.
"You can awk the CSV file to filter rows based on specific column values."
Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Originating as an acronym from the surnames of its authors (Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan) in the late 1970s at Bell Labs. It has since become a standard general-purpose text processing language and utility in Unix and Linux computing environments.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Awk" is said worldwide
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Awk
Transliteration: /ɔk/
"Il a écrit un script awk pour analyser les données."
Awk
Transliteration: /ɔːk/
"Das Programm verwendet awk zur Textverarbeitung."
Awk
Transliteration: /ɔk/
"Ha usato awk per estrarre le informazioni dal file."
Awk
Transliteration: /awk/
"Utilizó awk para procesar el archivo de registros."
Awk
Transliteration: /awk/
"O comando awk é muito útil para manipulação de texto."
ऑक
Transliteration: ok
Script: हिंदी देवनागरी
"लॉग फ़ाइलों को पार्स करने के लिए awk का उपयोग किया गया था।"
Awk编程语言
Transliteration: Awk biānchéng yǔyán
Script: 中文汉字
"他用awk脚本来处理文本数据。"
오크
Transliteration: okeu
Script: 한국어 한글
"로그 파일을 분석하기 위해 awk를 사용했습니다."
Awk
Transliteration: Ōku
Script: 日本語
"ログファイルを処理するためにawkコマンドを使用しました。"
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