gawk: Installation summary
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1 * The 'gawk' distribution is available from the GNU Project's main
1 distribution site, 'ftp.gnu.org'. The canonical build recipe is:
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1 wget https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk/gawk-4.2.1.tar.gz
1 tar -xvpzf gawk-4.2.1.tar.gz
1 cd gawk-4.2.1
1 ./configure && make && make check
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1 NOTE: Because of the 'https://' URL, you may have to supply
1 the '--no-check-certificate' option to 'wget' to download the
1 file.
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1 * 'gawk' may be built on non-POSIX systems as well. The currently
1 supported systems are MS-Windows using MSYS, DJGPP, MinGW, and
1 Cygwin, and both Vax/VMS and OpenVMS. Instructions for each system
1 are included in this major node.
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1 * Bug reports should be sent via email to <bug-gawk@gnu.org>. Bug
1 reports should be in English and should include the version of
1 'gawk', how it was compiled, and a short program and data file that
1 demonstrate the problem.
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1 * There are a number of other freely available 'awk' implementations.
1 Many are POSIX-compliant; others are less so.
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