How To Install mawk on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install mawk on Rocky Linux 8. mawk is Interpreter for the AWK programming language

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mawk on Rocky Linux 8.

What is mawk

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.

We can use yum or dnf to install mawk on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mawk.

Install mawk on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install mawk using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mawk

Install mawk on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install mawk using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mawk

How To Uninstall mawk on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the mawk package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove mawk

mawk Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/mawk
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4b
/usr/lib/.build-id/4b/9e28e88b959cb93eb679690724ec09aabed94a
/usr/share/doc/mawk
/usr/share/doc/mawk/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/mawk/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/mawk/README
/usr/share/doc/mawk/examples
/usr/share/doc/mawk/examples/ct_length.awk
/usr/share/doc/mawk/examples/decl.awk
/usr/share/doc/mawk/examples/deps.awk
/usr/share/doc/mawk/examples/eatc.awk
/usr/share/doc/mawk/examples/gdecl.awk
/usr/share/doc/mawk/examples/hcal
/usr/share/doc/mawk/examples/hical
/usr/share/doc/mawk/examples/nocomment.awk
/usr/share/doc/mawk/examples/primes.awk
/usr/share/doc/mawk/examples/qsort.awk
/usr/share/man/man1/mawk.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mawk on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.