How To Install mawk on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install mawk on CentOS 7. mawk is Interpreter for the AWK programming language

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mawk on CentOS 7.

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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mawk.

Install mawk on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install mawk

Install mawk on CentOS 7 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 mawk using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mawk

How To Uninstall mawk on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove mawk

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mawk on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.