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How do you use Awk in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.

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Awk in a sentence

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Awk | Awkward | Awkwardly | Awkwardness | Awka | Awkwafina | Awkunanaw | Awkuzu

Awk meaning

  1. Odd; out of order; perverse.
  2. Wrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister.
  3. Clumsy in performance or manners; not dexterous; awkward.

Using Awk

  • The main meaning on this page is: Odd; out of order; perverse. | Wrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister. | Clumsy in performance or manners; not dexterous; awkward.
  • In the example corpus, awk often appears in combinations such as: nyse awk, awk has, in awk.

Context around Awk

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 17.7 words
  • Position in the sentence: 9 start, 8 middle, 3 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

commands 1× programs 1× muttered 1× live 1× bwk 1× operators 1× block 1× systems 1× gnu 1× input 1×

Often after:

commands 2× programs 1× ward 1× tober 1× idiom 1× program 1× reads 1× expressions 1× manual 1×

Sentence patterns with Awk

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

an awk program is 1× awk commands awk 1× awk commands awk commands are 1× awk has been 1× awk programs awk is a 1× awk reads the 1× awk was preceded 1× competing with awk in the 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

several other hedge 2× adding zero to 1× an awk program 1× awk commands awk 1× awk has been 1× awk reads the 1×

Common sentence endings:

a numeric value 1× against a string 1× and comedy sets 1× by sed 1974 1× in may 2001 1× its technical characteristics 1×

Words around Awk

Just before it in the word index:

awiyah 3 awiti 2 awis 2 awing 6 awin 2 awief 3

Just after it in the word index:

awka 87 awkunanaw 3 awkuzu 2 awkwafina 38 awkward 924 awkwardly 168

Similar in corpus frequency:

abdulkadir 35 abed 35 abhay 35 abides 35 abiotic 35 abkhazia 35

Corpus analysis for Awk

  • In this selection, "awk" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 17.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, commands, programs, muttered, commands, programs and ward stand out and add context to how "awk" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include an awk program is and awk commands awk. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "awk" sits close to words such as abdulkadir, abed and abhay, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with awk

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

AWK was preceded by sed (1974). (6 words)

AWK has been the topic of several research reports. (9 words)

AWK reads the input a line at a time. (9 words)

Longer example sentences

The pattern to match, however, works as follows: NR is the number of records, typically lines of input, AWK has so far read, i.e. the current line number, starting at 1 for the first line of input. (38 words)

FreeBSD before version 5.0 also included gawk version 3.0, but subsequent versions of FreeBSD use BWK awk to avoid the more restrictive GNU General Public License (GPL), as well as for its technical characteristics. (36 words)

In the 1980s and 1990s its use faded as newer languages such as AWK and Perl made string manipulation by means of regular expressions fashionable. (25 words)

Example sentences (20)

AWK commands AWK commands are the statements that are substituted for action in the examples above.

Structure of AWK programs "AWK is a language for processing text files.

AWK has been the topic of several research reports.

Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in AWK.

Several other hedge funds have also made changes to their positions in AWK.

There was stunned silence for a few moments until Priti Patel muttered ‘Awk-ward’.

Mortified Live: Awk-tober is hitting Denver with some hilarious confessionals and comedy sets.

Adding zero to a variable is an AWK idiom for coercing it from a string to a numeric value.

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An AWK program is a sequence of pattern-action statements.

AWK reads the input a line at a time.

AWK was preceded by sed (1974).

FreeBSD before version 5.0 also included gawk version 3.0, but subsequent versions of FreeBSD use BWK awk to avoid the more restrictive GNU General Public License (GPL), as well as for its technical characteristics.

In addition to normal arithmetic and logical operators, AWK expressions include the tilde operator, ~, which matches a regular expression against a string.

In the 1980s and 1990s its use faded as newer languages such as AWK and Perl made string manipulation by means of regular expressions fashionable.

In the 1990s, Perl became very popular, competing with AWK in the niche of Unix text-processing languages.

Note the if block. awk only checks to see if it should read from standard input before it runs the command.

On Unix and other Posix-compliant systems, awk and sed are used to extend the string and numeric processing ability of shell scripts.

The free GNU Awk manual was also published by O'Reilly in May 2001.

The "K" of K&R C and the "K" in AWK both stand for "Kernighan".

The pattern to match, however, works as follows: NR is the number of records, typically lines of input, AWK has so far read, i.e. the current line number, starting at 1 for the first line of input.

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Common combinations with awk

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "awk" in a sentence?
An example: "AWK commands AWK commands are the statements that are substituted for action in the examples above." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "awk" from authentic English texts.
What does "awk" mean?
Awk means: Odd; out of order; perverse.
How many example sentences with "awk" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "awk", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.