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Chapter 10. Installing Basic System Software

10.41. Gawk-4.1.1

The Gawk package contains programs for manipulating text files.

10.41.1. Installation of Gawk

Prepare Gawk for compilation: 

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

Compile the package: 

make

To test the results, issue: 

make check

Install the package: 

make install

Install the documentation: 

mkdir -v /usr/share/doc/gawk-4.1.1
cp -v doc/{awkforai.txt,*.{eps,pdf,jpg}} /usr/share/doc/gawk-4.1.1

10.41.2. Contents of Gawk

Installed programs: awk (link to gawk), gawk, gawk-4.1.1, grcat, igawk, pgawk, pgawk-4.1.1, pwcat
Installed directories: /usr/lib/awk, /usr/lib/gawk, /usr/share/awk, /usr/share/doc/gawk-4.1.1

Short Descriptions

awk

A link to gawk

gawk

A program for manipulating text files; it is the GNU implementation of awk

gawk-4.1.1

A hard link to gawk

grcat

Dumps the group database /etc/group

igawk

Gives gawk the ability to include files

pgawk

The profiling version of gawk

pgawk-4.1.1

Hard link to pgawk

pwcat

Dumps the password database /etc/passwd