Awk Glossary

Browse 2 awk terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

2 Awk Terms

Field Separator: A character or string used to delimit fields in a record. In Unix tools like AWK and cut, the field separator (FS or -d) determines how lines are split into...
Pattern Action: A programming paradigm, most associated with AWK, where rules consist of a pattern (condition) paired with an action (code block). When input matches the...