Information about the package, gawk, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The gawk package is designed for, The GNU version of the awk text processing utility.
Package Name:
gawk
Summary:
The GNU version of the awk text processing utility
Description:
The gawk package contains the GNU version of awk, a text processing utility. Awk interprets a special-purpose programming language to do quick and easy text pattern matching and reformatting jobs. Install the gawk package if you need a text processing utility. Gawk is considered to be a standard Linux tool for processing text.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
3.1.7
Release:
10.el6_7.3
Size:
1.9 M
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
updates
Licence:
GPLv3+
Control the gawk package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install gawk
This command will install gawk on the server.
yum remove gawk
This command will un-install gawk on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove gawk, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove gawk
This command will un-install gawk 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 gawk when using the -y flag.
yum update gawk
This command will update gawk to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove gawk, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update gawk
This command will update gawk 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 gawk when using the -y flag.
yum info gawk
This command will show you core information about the gawk package.
yum deplist gawk
This command will show you the dependencies for gawk. 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 gawk
This command will check if there is an update waiting on gawk. 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.