How To Install gawk on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install gawk on Kali Linux. gawk is GNU awk, a pattern scanning and processing language

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gawk on Kali Linux.

What is gawk

gawk is:

`awk’, a program that you can use to select particular records in a file and perform operations upon them.

Gawk is the GNU Project’s implementation of the AWK programming language. It conforms to the definition of the language in the POSIX 1003.2 Command Language And Utilities Standard. This version in turn is based on the description in The AWK Programming Language, by Aho, Kernighan, and Weinberger, with the additional features defined in the System V Release 4 version of UNIX awk. Gawk also provides more recent Bell Labs awk extensions, and some GNU-specific extensions.

There are three methods to install gawk on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install gawk Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install gawk using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install gawk

Install gawk Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install gawk using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install gawk

Install gawk Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install gawk using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gawk

How To Uninstall gawk on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove gawk

Uninstall gawk And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gawk and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gawk

Remove gawk Configurations and Data

To remove gawk configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gawk

Remove gawk configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove gawk configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gawk

Dependencies

gawk have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gawk package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.