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-awk Programming Language
+====== AWK ======
+AWK is a data-processing and scripting language created by Aho, Weinberger, and Kernighan at Bell Labs in 1977. It is available on most UNIX systems since Version 7 and is still found on the majority of UNIX and UNIX-like systems today.
+As a scripting language, AWK is suitable for writing both one-liners and programs of a few hundred lines.
+AWK is available on systems including the PDP 11/70.
+===== Examples =====
+==== Hello world ====
+        BEGIN {
+                print "hello, world"
+                end
+        }
+==== Further Reading ====
+Aho, A. V., Kernighan, B. W., Weinberger, P. J. (1988). //The AWK programming language//. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.