gawk

A tool for handling simple data-reformatting jobs. See documentation

Maintainers

• The Core Planners: chef-core-planners@chef.io

Type of Package

Binary package

Use as Dependency

Binary packages can be set as runtime or build time dependencies. See Defining your dependencies for more information.

To add core/gawk as a dependency, you can add one of the following to your plan file.

Buildtime Dependency

pkg_build_deps=(core/gawk)

Runtime dependency

pkg_deps=(core/gawk)

Use as Tool

Installation

To install this plan, you should run the following commands to first install, and then link the binaries this plan creates.

hab pkg install core/gawk --binlink

will add the following binaries to the PATH:

• /bin/awk
• /bin/gawk

Using an example binary

You can now use the binary as normal. For example:

/bin/gawk --help or gawk --help

$ gawk --help
Usage: gawk [POSIX or GNU style options] -f progfile [--] file ...
Usage: gawk [POSIX or GNU style options] [--] 'program' file ...
POSIX options:          GNU long options: (standard)
        -f progfile             --file=progfile
        -F fs                   --field-separator=fs
        -v var=val              --assign=var=val
Short options:          GNU long options: (extensions)
        -b                      --characters-as-bytes
        -c                      --traditional
        -C                      --copyright
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