BSD Ports

lang/nawk 20250726 NetBSD

Brian Kernighan's pattern-directed scanning and processing language

System
NetBSD
Repository
pkgsrc
Maintainer
[email protected]
License
mit
Categories
lang
Package size
58.1 KiB, 204.2 KiB installed

Description

The one, true implementation of the AWK pattern-directed scanning and processing language, by one of the language's creators, Brian Kernighan. This is the version of awk described in "The AWK Programming Language", by Al Aho, Brian Kernighan, and Peter Weinberger (Addison-Wesley, 1988, ISBN 0-201-07981-X). It is also known as new awk, or nawk.

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
NetBSDlang/nawk20250726
FreeBSDlang/nawk20121220_3
DragonFlylang/nawk20121220_3
MidnightBSDlang/nawk20121220_1

Install

Binary package:

pkgin install nawk

From pkgsrc:

cd /usr/pkgsrc/lang/nawk && make install clean

Dependencies

No port depends on this one.