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<sect1 id="ch-system-gawk" xreflabel="Gawk" role="wrap">
<title>Gawk-&gawk-version;</title>
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<indexterm zone="ch-system-gawk"><primary sortas="a-Gawk">Gawk</primary></indexterm>

<sect2 role="package"><title/>
<para>The Gawk package contains programs for manipulating text files.</para>

<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
<segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
<seglistitem><seg>0.2 SBU</seg><seg>17 MB</seg></seglistitem>
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<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>Gawk installation depends on</segtitle>
<seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils,
Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed</seg></seglistitem>
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</sect2>

<sect2 role="installation">
<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>Install the package:</para>

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

</sect2>


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

<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
<seglistitem><seg>awk (link to gawk), gawk, gawk-&gawk-version;, grcat, igawk, 
pgawk, pgawk-&gawk-version; and pwcat</seg></seglistitem>
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<variablelist><title>Short descriptions</title>

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

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

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

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

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

</sect2>

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