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   6 <sect1 id="ch-system-gawk" xreflabel="Gawk">
   7 <title>Gawk-&gawk-version;</title>
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  10 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gawk"><primary sortas="a-Gawk">Gawk</primary></indexterm>
  11
  12 <para>The Gawk package contains programs for manipulating text files.</para>
  13
  14 <screen>&buildtime; 0.2 SBU
  15 &diskspace; 17 MB</screen>
  16
  17 <para>Gawk installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils,
  18 Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed.</para>
  19
  20
  21
  22 <sect2>
  23 <title>Installation of Gawk</title>
  24
  25 <para>Prepare Gawk for compilation:</para>
  26
  27 <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib</userinput></screen>
  28
  29 <para>Compile the package:</para>
  30
  31 <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
  32
  33 <para>To test the results, issue:
  34 <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
  35
  36 <para>Now install the package:</para>
  37
  38 <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
  39
  40 </sect2>
  41
  42
  43 <sect2 id="contents-gawk"><title>Contents of Gawk</title>
  44
  45 <para><emphasis>Installed programs</emphasis>: awk (link to gawk), gawk,
  46 gawk-&gawk-version;, grcat, igawk, pgawk, pgawk-&gawk-version; and pwcat</para>
  47
  48 </sect2>
  49
  50 <sect2><title>Short descriptions</title>
  51
  52 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gawk gawk"><primary sortas="b-gawk">gawk</primary></indexterm>
  53 <para id="gawk"><command>gawk</command> is a program for manipulating text files.
  54 It is the GNU implementation of awk.</para>
  55
  56 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gawk grcat"><primary sortas="b-grcat">grcat</primary></indexterm>
  57 <para id="grcat"><command>grcat</command> dumps the group database
  58 <filename>/etc/group</filename>.</para>
  59
  60 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gawk igawk"><primary sortas="b-igawk">igawk</primary></indexterm>
  61 <para id="igawk"><command>igawk</command> gives gawk the ability to
  62 include files.</para>
  63
  64 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gawk pgawk"><primary sortas="b-pgawk">pgawk</primary></indexterm>
  65 <para id="pgawk"><command>pgawk</command> is the profiling version of gawk.</para>
  66
  67 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gawk pwcat"><primary sortas="b-pwcat">pwcat</primary></indexterm>
  68 <para id="pwcat"><command>pwcat</command> dumps the password database
  69 <filename>/etc/passwd</filename>.</para>
  70
  71 </sect2>
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