The Full Form of AWK is Aho, Weinberger, Kernighan.
AWK was initially developed in 1977 by Alfred Aho (author of egrep), Peter J. Weinberger (who worked on tiny relational databases), and Brian Kernighan; it takes its name from their respective initials. According to Kernighan, one of the goals of AWK was to have a tool that would easily manipulate both numbers and strings. AWK was also inspired by Marc Rochkind’s programming language that was used to search for patterns in input data, and was implemented using yacc.
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Aho, Weinberger, Kernighan
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