AWK is a domain-specific language designed for text processing and typically used as a data extraction and reporting tool. Like sed and grep, it is a filter, and it is a standard feature of most Unix-like operating systems. Wikipedia

Created Year: 1977
Designed by: Alfred Aho • Brian Kernighan
Developed by: Alfred Aho • Brian Kernighan • Peter J. Weinberger
Named after: Alfred Aho, Brian Kernighan, Peter J. Weinberger
Aliases: awk, Awk

Wikidata: Q213970

Influenced: AMPL • JavaScript • Perl • Tcl

Influenced by: Bourne shell • C • SNOBOL

Programming paradigms: data-driven programming • procedural programming

Language types: scripting language

# awk -f awk.awk
BEGIN { print "Hello World" }