How to Install and Uninstall gawk.x86_64 Package on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8

Last updated: April 26,2024

1. Install "gawk.x86_64" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install gawk.x86_64 on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8

$ sudo dnf update $ sudo dnf install gawk.x86_64

2. Uninstall "gawk.x86_64" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall gawk.x86_64 on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8:

$ sudo dnf remove gawk.x86_64 $ sudo dnf autoremove

3. Information about the gawk.x86_64 package on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8

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Installed Packages
Name : gawk
Version : 4.2.1
Release : 1.el8
Architecture : x86_64
Size : 2.6 M
Source : gawk-4.2.1-1.el8.src.rpm
Repository : @System
From repo : anaconda
Summary : The GNU version of the AWK text processing utility
URL : https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/
License : GPLv3+ and GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+ and BSD
Description : The gawk package contains the GNU version of AWK text processing utility. AWK is
: a programming language designed for text processing and typically used as a data
: extraction and reporting tool.
:
: The gawk utility can be used to do quick and easy text pattern matching,
: extracting or reformatting. It is considered to be a standard Linux tool for
: text processing.