How To Install gawk on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gawk on CentOS 8.
What is gawk
The gawk package contains the GNU version of AWK text processing utility. AWK is a programming language designed for text processing and typically used as a data extraction and reporting tool. The gawk utility can be used to do quick and easy text pattern matching, extracting or reformatting. It is considered to be a standard Linux tool for text processing. The gawk package contains the GNU version of AWK text processing utility. AWK is a programming language designed for text processing and typically used as a data extraction and reporting tool. The gawk utility can be used to do quick and easy text pattern matching, extracting or reformatting. It is considered to be a standard Linux tool for text processing.
We can use yum or dnf to install gawk on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gawk.
Install gawk on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install gawk using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gawk
Install gawk on CentOS 8 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install gawk using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gawk
How To Uninstall gawk on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the gawk package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gawk
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gawk on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.