.awk
3 claimants
3 primary
0 secondary
shared primary (3)
SWH popularity
From the SWH-MSR-ARV dataset (Desmazières, Di Cosmo, Lorentz, MSR 2025; file nb_extensions_alphanum.csv) — one row per (ext, year) in the full SWH archive. Case-aggregated. citation.
Case variants in archive: .awk (240.3K), .AWK (313), .Awk (2) — aggregated above.
Claimants (4)
Languages that list .awk among their extensions. Strength reflects whether the upstream source treated it as their primary extension.
| Language | Source | Strength |
| Awk | linguist | primary |
| Awk | pygments | primary |
| MAWK | pygments | primary |
| Nawk | pygments | primary |
Wikidata says… (1)
File formats, image formats, audio codecs and other non-PL
entities that claim .awk on Wikidata
(property P1195) or in the Wikipedia infobox.
Source: data/derived/external_extension_index.csv.
Click Use as new PL on any row to open the
Add-PL form pre-filled with that entry's name, Wikipedia/Wikidata
URL, and this extension — one submission creates the PL + claim.
SWH-mined examples (1)
Real archived programs with this extension, byte-verified against the SWH archive. Useful for deciding what this extension actually is when the attribution is uncertain.
swh:1:cnt:b9b6bce570f3042048358acc9c5d7b3f2c9baa39;origin=https://github.com/mbuilov/gawk-windows;anchor=swh:1:rev:663aff4ae012468c54d2e994e839d0e75210ef80;path=/awklib/eg/lib/ns_passwd.awk