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

Last updated: May 03,2024

1. Install "mawk" package

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


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

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall mawk on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: mawk
Priority: required
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 197
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Steve Langasek
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.3.3-17ubuntu2
Provides: awk
Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14)
Filename: pool/main/m/mawk/mawk_1.3.3-17ubuntu2_amd64.deb
Size: 78870
MD5sum: ca1ecd2030a4aee73ae8d64ed7ddaba5
SHA1: ce7577c4a0692a0501a2d957af4e1be834a054bc
SHA256: c1f3ebea7ffeca3d4289284fc54e61eafa7b50f1e5fcc2c04695ee4cae1eb958
Description-en: a pattern scanning and text processing language
Mawk is an interpreter for the AWK Programming Language. The AWK
language is useful for manipulation of data files, text retrieval and
processing, and for prototyping and experimenting with algorithms. Mawk
is a new awk meaning it implements the AWK language as defined in Aho,
Kernighan and Weinberger, The AWK Programming Language, Addison-Wesley
Publishing, 1988. (Hereafter referred to as the AWK book.) Mawk conforms
to the POSIX 1003.2 (draft 11.3) definition of the AWK language
which contains a few features not described in the AWK book, and mawk
provides a small number of extensions.
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Mawk is smaller and much faster than gawk. It has some compile-time
limits such as NF = 32767 and sprintf buffer = 1020.
Description-md5: e02f3de1fa8a56e3f324f082c0c2e41f
Multi-Arch: foreign
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 5y
Task: minimal