5.16. Installing Gawk-3.1.3

5.16.1. 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

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5.16.3. Gawk Installation Dependencies

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

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5.16.5. Installation of Gawk

Prepare Gawk for compilation:

./configure --prefix=/tools

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 it:

make install