How to Install and Uninstall gawk.x86_64 Package on Oracle Linux 8

Last updated: June 18,2024

1. Install "gawk.x86_64" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install gawk.x86_64 on Oracle Linux 8


    
        
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                sudo dnf update
            
                    
    
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                sudo dnf install
            
                        
                gawk.x86_64
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "gawk.x86_64" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall gawk.x86_64 on Oracle Linux 8:


    
        
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                sudo dnf remove
            
                        
                gawk.x86_64
            
                    
    
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                sudo dnf autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the gawk.x86_64 package on Oracle Linux 8

Last metadata expiration check: 6:24:07 ago on Mon Sep 12 02:51:38 2022.
Installed Packages
Name : gawk
Version : 4.2.1
Release : 4.el8
Architecture : x86_64
Size : 2.6 M
Source : gawk-4.2.1-4.el8.src.rpm
Repository : @System
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.
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: 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.