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[in Hindu mythology, the incarnation of a god] 1. Among people working

on virtual reality and [689]cyberspace interfaces, an avatar is an

icon or representation of a user in a shared virtual reality. The term

is sometimes used on [690]MUDs. 2. [CMU, Tektronix] [691]root,

[692]superuser. There are quite a few Unix machines on which the name

of the superuser account is `avatar' rather than `root'. This quirk

was originated by a CMU hacker who found the terms `root' and

`superuser' unimaginative, and thought `avatar' might better impress

people with the responsibility they were accepting.

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Node:awk, Next:[693]B5, Previous:[694]avatar, Up:[695]= A =

awk /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.

See also [696]Perl. 2. n. Editing term for an expression awkward to

manipulate through normal [697]regexp facilities (for example, one

containing a [698]newline). 3. vt. To process data using awk(1).

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