lfs-book/chapter06/gawk.xml

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<title>Gawk-&gawk-version;</title>
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<indexterm zone="ch-system-gawk"><primary sortas="a-Gawk">Gawk</primary></indexterm>

<para>The Gawk package contains programs for manipulating text files.</para>

<screen>&buildtime; 0.2 SBU
&diskspace; 17 MB</screen>

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



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<title>Installation of Gawk</title>

<para>Prepare Gawk for compilation:</para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib</userinput></screen>

<para>Compile the package:</para>

<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>

<para>To test the results, issue:
<userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>

<para>Now install the package:</para>

<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

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<sect2 id="contents-gawk"><title>Contents of Gawk</title>

<para><emphasis>Installed programs</emphasis>: awk (link to gawk), gawk,
gawk-&gawk-version;, grcat, igawk, pgawk, pgawk-&gawk-version; and pwcat</para>

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<sect2><title>Short descriptions</title>

<indexterm zone="ch-system-gawk gawk"><primary sortas="b-gawk">gawk</primary></indexterm>
<para id="gawk"><command>gawk</command> is a program for manipulating text files.
It is the GNU implementation of awk.</para>

<indexterm zone="ch-system-gawk grcat"><primary sortas="b-grcat">grcat</primary></indexterm>
<para id="grcat"><command>grcat</command> dumps the group database
<filename>/etc/group</filename>.</para>

<indexterm zone="ch-system-gawk igawk"><primary sortas="b-igawk">igawk</primary></indexterm>
<para id="igawk"><command>igawk</command> gives gawk the ability to
include files.</para>

<indexterm zone="ch-system-gawk pgawk"><primary sortas="b-pgawk">pgawk</primary></indexterm>
<para id="pgawk"><command>pgawk</command> is the profiling version of gawk.</para>

<indexterm zone="ch-system-gawk pwcat"><primary sortas="b-pwcat">pwcat</primary></indexterm>
<para id="pwcat"><command>pwcat</command> dumps the password database
<filename>/etc/passwd</filename>.</para>

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