A.17. Gawk

For installation instructions see Section 6.20.

A.17.1. Official Download Location

Gawk (3.1.3): 
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gawk/

Gawk Libexecdir Patch:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/5.0/gawk-3.1.3-libexecdir.patch

A.17.2. Contents of Gawk

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

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

A.17.3.

A.17.4. 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.

A.17.5.

A.17.6. Gawk Installation Dependencies

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

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