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• awk: 1. n. [UNIX techspeak] An interpreted language for massaging text data developed by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan (the name derives from their initials).
  It is characterized by C-like syntax, a declaration-free approach to variable typing and declarations, associative arrays, and field-oriented text processing....
• egexp: /reg'eksp/ [UNIX] n. (alt. `regex' or `reg-ex') 1.
  Common written and spoken abbreviation for `regular expression', one of the wildcard patterns used, e....
• Perl: /perl/ [Practical Extraction and Report Language, a.
  k.a Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister] n. An interpreted language developed by Larry Wall &l...
• line noise: n. 1. [techspeak] Spurious characters due to electrical noise in a communications link, especially an RS-232 serial connection.
  Line noise may be induced by poor connections, interference or crosstalk from other circuits, electrical storms, {cosmic rays}, or (notionally) birds crapping on the phone wires....
• Perl /perl/ n. [Practical Extraction and Report Language, a.
  k.a. Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister] An interpreted language developed by Larry Wall (&l...
• What does "awk" indicate? The three letters form an acronym for the authors of the program
  Aho, Weinberger, and Kernighan. The name is probably also an abbreviated indictment of the language's syntax....
• egexp /reg'eksp/ n. [Unix] (alt. `regex' or `reg-ex') 1.
  Common written and spoken abbreviation for `regular expression', one of the wildcard patterns used, e....
• ewline: /n[y]oo'li:n/ n. 1. [techspeak, primarily UNIX] The ASCII LF character (0001010), used under {{UNIX}} as a text line terminator.
  A Bell-Labs-ism rather than a Berkeleyism; interestingly (and unusually for UNIX jargon), it is said to have originally been an IBM usage....
• letterbomb: 1. n. A piece of {email} containing {live data} intended to do nefarious things to the recipient's machine or terminal.
  It is possible, for example, to send letterbombs that will lock up some specific kinds of terminals when they are viewed, so thoroughly that the user must cycle power (see {cycle}, sense 3) to unwedge them....