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nawk


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



Handy Yum Commands for nawk


Control the nawk package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

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.