(thing) by tribbel Sun Aug 20 2000 at 23:18:51

A POSIX 1003.2 (draft 11.3) compliant interpreter for the AWK (Aho, Weinberger, Kernighan) programming language.

The "M" in "mawk" probably stems from the first name of the author of mawk, Mike Brennan. In the manual page for mawk it is mentioned that "Implementors of the AWK language have show a consistent lack of imagination when naming their programs".

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(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 1:05:20

Mawk (?), n. [OE. mauk, maek, Icel. makr; akin to Dan. maddik, and E. mad an earthworm. See Mad, n.]

1.

A maggot.

[Scot.]

2.

A slattern; a mawks.

[Prov. Eng.]

 

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