Gawk

Official Download Location

Gawk (3.1.1): 
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gawk/

Gawk Patch (3.1.1-3):
http://downloads.linuxfromscratch.org/

Contents of Gawk

Last checked against version 3.1.1.

Gawk is an awk implementation that is used to manipulate text files.

Gawk installs the following:

Program Files

awk, gawk, gawk-3.1.1, grcat, igawk, pgawk, pgawk-3.1.1, pwcat

 

Descriptions

Last checked against version 3.1.1.

Program file descriptions

awk

awk is a symbolic link to gawk.

gawk, gawk-3.1.1

gawk is the GNU implementation of awk, a pattern scanning and processing language.

grcat

grcat concatenates the group database, /etc/group.

igawk

igawk is a shell script which gives gawk the ability to include files.

pgawk, pgawk-3.1.1

pgawk is the profiling version of gawk.

pwcat

pwcat concatenates the password database, /etc/passwd.

 

Gawk Installation Dependencies

Last checked against version 3.1.0.

(No dependencies checked yet.)