hawk

n 1: diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings

and a long tail

2: an advocate of an aggressive policy on foreign relations

[syn: {war hawk}] [ant: {dove}]

v 1: sell or offer for sale from place to place [syn: {peddle}, {monger},

{huckster}, {vend}, {pitch}]

2: hunt with hawks

3: clear the throat, as of phlegm [syn: {hawk and spit}]

4: clear mucus or food from one's throat; "he cleared his

throat before he started to speak" [syn: {clear the throat}]

awk

1. (Named from the authors' initials) An

interpreted language included with many versions of {Unix} for

massaging text data developed by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger,

and Brian Kernighan in 1978. It is characterised by {C}-like

syntax, declaration-free variables, {associative array}s, and

field-oriented text processing.

There is a {GNU} version called {gawk} and other varients

including {bawk}, {mawk}, {nawk}, {tawk}. {Perl} was inspired

in part by awk but is much more powerful.

{Unix manual page}: awk(1).

{netlib WWW

(http://plan9.att.com/netlib/research/index.html)}. {netlib

FTP (ftp://netlib.att.com/netlib/research/)}.

["The AWK Programming Language" A. Aho, B. Kernighan,

P. Weinberger, A-W 1988].

2. An expression which is awkward to manipulate

through normal {regexp} facilities, for example, one

containing a {newline}.

[{Jargon File}]

(1995-10-06)