Definition of "awk" [awk]

• Odd; out of order; perverse. (adjective)
• Wrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister; as, the awk end of a rod (the butt end). (adjective)
• Clumsy in performance or manners; unhandy; not dexterous; awkward. (adjective)
• Perversely; in the wrong way. (adverb)
• A Unix scripting language or the command line interface itself. (proper-noun)

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• "When I run this bash script that calls awk, all the output is on a single line."
• "If we don't want to use awk, which is a whole-blown programming language, then we can sort the output of cat and filter it via uniq:"
• ""Yes, an 'yit Hugh's throwed him fair jest by main strength an' awk'ardness.""