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awk
/ɔːk/
adj 4name 3adv 1
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4ADJ.
familiar, good, odd
VERB + AWK
processing
AWK + NOUN
hir, script, sed, speeches, tcl
PREP.
in
Definitions
adj
1
Odd; out of order; perverse.
2
Wrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister.
the awk end of hir charmed rod
3
Clumsy in performance or manners; not dexterous; awkward.
[…] whose wild and madbrain humour nothing fitteth so just, as the stalest dudgen or absurdest balductum, that they or their mates can invent in odd and awk speeches […]
4
Awkward; uncomfortable.
adv
1
Perversely; in the wrong way.
Ill huſbandry drowſeth at fortune ſo awke, / good huſbandry rowſeth him ſelfe like a hawke.
name
1
Alternative letter-case form of AWK.
One thing awk is good for is picking out and possibly rearranging columns within command output.
Must have exp w/ shell, incl Bash, & command line text processing incl grep, awk, & sed.
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the awk end of hir charmed rod
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[…] whose wild and madbrain humour nothing fitteth so just, as the stalest dudgen or absurdest balductum, that they or their mates can invent in odd and awk speeches […]
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Ill huſbandry drowſeth at fortune ſo awke, / good huſbandry rowſeth him ſelfe like a hawke.
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One thing awk is good for is picking out and possibly rearranging columns within command output.
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Must have exp w/ shell, incl Bash, & command line text processing incl grep, awk, & sed.
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I used C, Perl, the Bourne shell, and some AWK and Tcl to implement these projects.
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