For installation instructions see the Section called Installing Gawk-3.1.3 in Chapter 6.
Gawk (3.1.3):
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gawk/
Gawk Patch (3.1.3):
http://downloads.linuxfromscratch.org/
(Last checked against version 3.1.1.)
Gawk is an awk implementation that is used to manipulate text files.
Gawk installs the following:
awk, gawk, gawk-3.1.1, grcat, igawk, pgawk, pgawk-3.1.1, pwcat
(Last checked against version 3.1.1.)
awk is a symbolic link to gawk.
gawk is the GNU implementation of awk, a pattern scanning and processing language.
grcat concatenates the group database, /etc/group.
igawk is a shell script which gives gawk the ability to include files.
pgawk is the profiling version of gawk.
pwcat concatenates the password database, /etc/passwd.
(No dependencies checked yet.)