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• awk: 1. n. [UNIX techspeak] An interpreted language for massaging text data developed by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan (the name derives from their initials).
  It is characterized by C-like syntax, a declaration-free approach to variable typing and declarations, associative arrays, and field-oriented text processing....
• What does "awk" indicate? The three letters form an acronym for the authors of the program
  Aho, Weinberger, and Kernighan. The name is probably also an abbreviated indictment of the language's syntax....
• Perl /perl/ n. [Practical Extraction and Report Language, a.
  k.a. Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister] An interpreted language developed by Larry Wall (&l...
• egexp /reg'eksp/ n. [Unix] (alt. `regex' or `reg-ex') 1.
  Common written and spoken abbreviation for `regular expression', one of the wildcard patterns used, e....
• egexp: /reg'eksp/ [UNIX] n. (alt. `regex' or `reg-ex') 1.
  Common written and spoken abbreviation for `regular expression', one of the wildcard patterns used, e....
• Perl: /perl/ [Practical Extraction and Report Language, a.
  k.a Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister] n. An interpreted language developed by Larry Wall &l...
• line noise n. 1. [techspeak] Spurious characters due to electrical noise in a communications link, especially an RS-232 serial connection.
  Line noise may be induced by poor connections, interference or crosstalk from other circuits, electrical storms, cosmic rays, or (notionally) birds crapping on the phone wires....
• line noise: n. 1. [techspeak] Spurious characters due to electrical noise in a communications link, especially an RS-232 serial connection.
  Line noise may be induced by poor connections, interference or crosstalk from other circuits, electrical storms, {cosmic rays}, or (notionally) birds crapping on the phone wires....
• ewline /n[y]oo'li:n/ n. 1. [techspeak, primarily Unix] The ASCII LF character (0001010), used under Unix as a text line terminator.
  Though the term `newline' appears in ASCII standards, it never caught on in the general computing world before Unix....