Installing Gawk-3.1.3

The Gawk package contains programs for manipulating text files.

Approximate build time:  0.2 SBU
Required disk space:     17 MB

Official download location for Gawk (3.1.3): 
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk/

For its installation Gawk depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed.

Installation of Gawk

Prepare Gawk for compilation:

./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib

Compile the package:

make

This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of checks to ensure it built correctly. Should you choose to run it, the following command will do so:

make check

And install the package:

make install

Contents of Gawk

Installed programs: awk (link to gawk), gawk, gawk-3.1.3, grcat, igawk, pgawk, pgawk-3.1.3 and pwcat

Short descriptions

gawk is a program for manipulating text files. It is the GNU implementation of awk.

grcat dumps the group database /etc/group.

igawk gives gawk the ability to include files.

pgawk is the profiling version of gawk.

pwcat dumps the password database /etc/passwd.