For installation instructions see the Section called Installing Gawk-3.1.3 in Chapter 6.
Gawk (3.1.3):
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gawk/
Gawk Patch (3.1.3):
http://downloads.linuxfromscratch.org/
(Last checked against version 3.1.1.)
Gawk is an awk implementation that is used to manipulate text files.
Gawk installs the following:
awk, gawk, gawk-3.1.1, grcat, igawk, pgawk, pgawk-3.1.1, pwcat
(Last checked against version 3.1.1.)
gawk is a program for manipulating text files. It is the GNU implementation of awk.
grcat dumps the group database /etc/group.
igawk gives gawk the ability to include files.
pgawk is the profiling version of gawk.
pwcat dumps the password database /etc/passwd.
(Not checked yet.)