Gawk-3.1.3
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## Gawk-3.1.3

The Gawk package contains programs for manipulating text files.

    Approximate build time:  0.2 SBU
    Required disk space:     17 MB

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

### Installation of Gawk

Prepare Gawk for compilation:

    ./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib

Compile the package:

    make

To test the results, issue: `make check`.

Now install the package:

    make install

### Contents of Gawk

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

### 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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