AWK Programming Language, The

Title

AWK Programming Language, The

Publisher

Pearson

ISBN

9780201079814

Published

1988-01-11

Language

English

Genre

Computers / Programming Languages / General

Plats

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Author(s)

• Alfred V. Aho
• Brian W. Kernighan
• Peter J. Weinberger

Description

Originally developed by Alfred Aho, Brian Kernighan, and Peter Weinberger in 1977, AWK is a pattern-matching language for writing short programs to perform common data-manipulation tasks. In 1985, a new version of the language was developed, incorporating additional features such as multiple input files, dynamic regular expressions, and user-defined funcitons. This new version is available for both UNIX and MS-DOS.