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AWK is a language. I always get upset when people call it a program or a tool. In a very BROAD and general sense all languages are also a program or a tool but
by baldfat 11y ago
AWK is a language. I always get upset when people call it a program or a tool. In a very BROAD and general sense all languages are also a program or a tool but it is first and foremost a language. Perl isn't called a tool or a program 1/100 as much as AWK. Maybe I am just petty?
- Tiksi 11y agoThis is probably because a good majority of the time it's used on the command line directly instead of writing the code to a file and executing that. In the days perl was more commonly used inline ( perl -e 'print "\x90"x200;' and friends) it was often referred to the same way.