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From: kers@otter.hple.hp.com (Christopher Dollin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Origin of 'awk'
Message-ID: <1590003@otter.hple.hp.com>
Date: 10 Mar 88 08:26:03 GMT
References: <2111@ukecc.engr.uky.edu>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
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>@AWK!!!@
>
>Is *this* the true origin of one of my favorite UNIX commands?
>Could it have really come from a campy 60's action/adventure show?

Isn't it an abbreviation of "awkward"? I hear there's a command whose name is
a contraction of "vile" .....................................................

Regards,
Kers                                    | "Why Lisp if you can talk Poperly?"