> AWK was created at Bell Labs in the 1970s, and its name is derived from the surnames of its authors—Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan. The acronym is pronounced the same as the name ...

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that real programs can be and are written using the AWK programming language. When I first started working with UNIX, going back 10 years now, no one I ...

wak is a fairly compact implementation of the awk programming language. It is mostly compatible with POSIX awk, Busybox awk, mawk, and Brian Kernighan's One True Awk (the original Unix awk, aka nawk), ...

The Complementary Pattern Processor to sed. sed and awk are typically mentioned in the same sentence. They both have their own strengths and areas where they are most effective. The past few columns ...

There was an interesting tidbit buried in a Computerphile video released last week (below the break), featuring professors [David Brailsford] and [Brian Kernighan] having a chat over coffee. Among ...