How To Install mawk on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mawk on Ubuntu.
What is mawk
mawk is:
Mawk is an interpreter for the AWK Programming Language. The AWK language is useful for manipulation of data files, text retrieval and processing, and for prototyping and experimenting with algorithms. Mawk is a new awk meaning it implements the AWK language as defined in Aho, Kernighan and Weinberger, The AWK Programming Language, Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1988. (Hereafter referred to as the AWK book.) Mawk conforms to the POSIX 1003.2 (draft 11.3) definition of the AWK language which contains a few features not described in the AWK book, and mawk provides a small number of extensions.
Mawk is smaller and much faster than gawk. It has some compile-time limits such as NF = 32767 and sprintf buffer = 1020.
There are three methods to install mawk on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mawk Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mawk using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mawk
Install mawk Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mawk using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mawk
Install mawk Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install mawk using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mawk
How To Uninstall mawk on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the mawk package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mawk
Uninstall mawk And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mawk and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mawk
Remove mawk Configurations and Data
To remove mawk configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mawk
Remove mawk configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mawk configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mawk
Dependencies
mawk have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mawk package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.