How To Install mawk on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mawk on Fedora 34.
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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mawk.
Install mawk on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install mawk using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install mawk
Install mawk on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
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 Fedora 34
To uninstall only the mawk package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove mawk
mawk Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/mawk
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/63
/usr/lib/.build-id/63/12edaa6e5ac33566d2f51c5c19bcc5eae7cd68
/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 Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.