Installation summary (The GNU Awk User’s Guide)

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B.6 Summary

• The gawk distribution is available from the GNU Project’s main distribution site, ftp.gnu.org. The canonical build recipe is:

  wget https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk/gawk-5.1.0.tar.gz tar -xvpzf gawk-5.1.0.tar.gz cd gawk-5.1.0 ./configure && make && make check

  NOTE: Because of the ‘https://’ URL, you may have to supply the --no-check-certificate option to wget to download the file.
• gawk may be built on non-POSIX systems as well. The currently supported systems are MS-Windows using MSYS, MSYS2, DJGPP, MinGW, and Cygwin, and both Vax/VMS and OpenVMS. Instructions for each system are included in this appendix.
• Bug reports should be sent via email to [email protected]. Bug reports should be in English and should include the version of gawk, how it was compiled, and a short program and data file that demonstrate the problem.
• There are a number of other freely available awk implementations. Many are POSIX-compliant; others are less so.