10.43. Gawk-4.1.4

The Gawk package contains programs for manipulating text files.

10.43.1. 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-4.1.4
cp -v doc/{awkforai.txt,*.{eps,pdf,jpg}} /usr/share/doc/gawk-4.1.4

Installed programs: awk (link to gawk), gawk, gawk-4.1.4, grcat, igawk, pgawk, pgawk-4.1.4, pwcat

Installed directories: /usr/lib/awk, /usr/lib/gawk, /usr/share/awk, /usr/share/doc/gawk-4.1.4

awk

A link to gawk

gawk

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

gawk-4.1.4

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-4.1.4

Hard link to pgawk

pwcat

Dumps the password database /etc/passwd