Information about the package, nawk, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The nawk package is designed for, "The one true awk" descended from UNIX V7.
Package Name:
nawk
Summary:
"The one true awk" descended from UNIX V7
Description:
This is the version of awk described in "The AWK Programming Language", by Al Aho, Brian Kernighan, and Peter Weinberger. (Addison-Wesley, 1988, ISBN 0-201-07981-X).
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
20121220
Release:
1.el6
Size:
69 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
MIT
Control the nawk package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install nawk
This command will install nawk on the server.
yum remove nawk
This command will un-install nawk on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove nawk, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove nawk
This command will un-install nawk on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove nawk when using the -y flag.
yum update nawk
This command will update nawk to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove nawk, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update nawk
This command will update nawk to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove nawk when using the -y flag.
yum info nawk
This command will show you core information about the nawk package.
yum deplist nawk
This command will show you the dependencies for nawk. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update nawk
This command will check if there is an update waiting on nawk. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.