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# Gawk

For installation instructions see the Section called Installing Gawk-3.1.3 in Chapter 6.

## Official Download Location

Gawk (3.1.3):
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gawk/
Gawk Patch (3.1.3):
http://downloads.linuxfromscratch.org/

## Contents of Gawk

(Last checked against version 3.1.1.)

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

Gawk installs the following:

### Program Files

awk, gawk, gawk-3.1.1, grcat, igawk, pgawk, pgawk-3.1.1, pwcat

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## Descriptions

(Last checked against version 3.1.1.)

### Program file descriptions

#### awk

awk is a symbolic link to gawk.

#### gawk, gawk-3.1.1

gawk is the GNU implementation of awk, a pattern scanning and processing language.

#### grcat

grcat concatenates the group database, /etc/group.

#### igawk

igawk is a shell script which gives gawk the ability to include files.

#### pgawk, pgawk-3.1.1

pgawk is the profiling version of gawk.

#### pwcat

pwcat concatenates the password database, /etc/passwd.

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## Gawk Installation Dependencies

(No dependencies checked yet.)

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