After recently getting my hands dirty with the wonderful [sed]({% post_url 2015-09-15-sed %}), the time has come for me to step it up with awk. Incepted in 1977 at Bell Labs, AWK is an interpreted programming language designed for text processing, and is a defacto part of most nix based distributions. The original version of UNIX awk was designed and implemented by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan (notice the first letter of their surnames together) of Bell Laboratories.