How to Install and Uninstall gawk Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 05,2024

1. Install "gawk" package

This tutorial shows how to install gawk on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                gawk
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "gawk" package

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall gawk on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                gawk
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the gawk package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: gawk
Priority: optional
Section: interpreters
Installed-Size: 1516
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Arthur Loiret
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:4.1.3+dfsg-0.1
Provides: awk
Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libgmp10, libmpfr4 (>= 3.1.3), libreadline6 (>= 6.0), libsigsegv2 (>= 2.9)
Suggests: gawk-doc
Filename: pool/main/g/gawk/gawk_4.1.3+dfsg-0.1_amd64.deb
Size: 398064
MD5sum: 64ff214a5db565b7a4e7141b9065a480
SHA1: 45514e9e52bd2b5743a13c73eb4cf6bf415bfff7
SHA256: 8f8b0a3ed5df1dd2e9ba5b381a37656e9e38155181786d129a4b290315500241
Description-en: GNU awk, a pattern scanning and processing language
`awk', a program that you can use to select particular records in a
file and perform operations upon them.
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Gawk is the GNU Project's implementation of the AWK programming language.
It conforms to the definition of the language in the POSIX 1003.2 Command
Language And Utilities Standard. This version in turn is based on the
description in The AWK Programming Language, by Aho, Kernighan, and
Weinberger, with the additional features defined in the System V Release
4 version of UNIX awk. Gawk also provides more recent Bell Labs awk
extensions, and some GNU-specific extensions.
Description-md5: 0dce81fe543994c3caea814e2777732e
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 5y
Task: virt-host, ubuntu-usb, cloud-image, server, edubuntu-desktop-gnome, edubuntu-usb, xubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-mate-cloudtop