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