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• When in doubt, escape. -- Guess Who (knowbudy@oro.net), referring to regular expressions in awk
• A is for awk, which runs like a snail, and B is for biff, which reads all your mail.
  C is for cc, as hackers recall, while D is for dd, the command that does all....
• Larry Michels, CEO of the Santa Cruz Operation, has resigned amid charges of routine sexual harrassment of female employees (San Jose Mercury New
  12/22/92), causing us to take a new look at some of the standard commands distributed with SCO UNIX...
• When faced with a problem, some people say 'Let's use AWK.
  ' Now they have two problems. -- Zalman Ste...
• 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....
• 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....
• Never write it in C if you can do it in `awk'. (*) Never do it in `awk' if `sed' can handle it.
  (*) Never use `sed' when `tr' can do the job....
• 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....
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you want to wash your hair and think
  awk -F"/neck" '{ print $1 }' | showe...