| 11. | Programs like awk and sed can be used to build quite complex filters because they are fully programmable.
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| 12. | Isn't awk a programming language ? talk ) 13 : 38, 2 December 2010 ( UTC)
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| 13. | Remember, lots of scripting languages ( such as Perl, Awk, etc . ) may be executible also.
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| 14. | I've definitely decided now that I just can't live without my awk, grep and sed.
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| 15. | In the 1990s, Perl became very popular, competing with AWK in the niche of Unix text-processing languages.
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| 16. | Associative arrays allow a fake support for multi-dimensional ( indexed ) arrays, in a similar way to AWK:
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| 17. | Also, the language AWK was designed and implemented by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan of Bell Laboratories.
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| 18. | The awk commands were quite standard, so the characters should not have affected anything, and should work on every version.
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| 19. | Since SNOBOL's creation, newer languages such as Awk and Perl have made string manipulation by means of regular expressions fashionable.
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| 20. | In practice, scripting languages are used to weave together small Unix tools such as AWK ( e . g ., wc.
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