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

## Contents of Gawk

(Last checked against version 3.1.3.)

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

Installed programs: awk, gawk, gawk-3.1.3, grcat, igawk, pgawk, pgawk-3.1.3 and pwcat

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## 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`.

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## Gawk Installation Dependencies

(Not checked yet.)

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