Michael,

gawk is probably what you want. you could get the source from

http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk/

There are many versions there. Once you install and run, you could update
Ubuntu with synaptic and get the Ubuntu version of gawk.

HTH,

Glenn

On Sunday 14 December 2008 10:23:10 Michael Satterwhite wrote:
> Earlier, I reported a problem with Apt. Don pointed me to a missing symlink
> for apt. On closer examination, I found that Awk is missing from my system.
> I have no idea how I could have done a new Hardy install and not have awk,
> but clearly it happened.
>
> Could someone point me at a place that I could get awk (sources for
> a ./configure, make, make install would be fine)? I'll keep googling, but
> If you no of a place, you could save me some time..
>
> Thanks


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> for apt. On closer examination, I found that Awk is missing from my system.
You should be able to get the deb off the install cd for gawk/awk. Try use
dpkg to install it before you head off for the source. You may be in a
catch-22 needing gcc to compile the source and needing apt to install gcc...

OTOH, gawk may already be in /usr/bin and all you need to do is create a
symlink from 'awk' to 'gawk'

hth,
d

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On Sunday 14 December 2008 11:24:09 Donn wrote:
> > for apt. On closer examination, I found that Awk is missing from my
> > system.
>
> You should be able to get the deb off the install cd for gawk/awk. Try use
> dpkg to install it before you head off for the source. You may be in a
> catch-22 needing gcc to compile the source and needing apt to install
> gcc...
>
> OTOH, gawk may already be in /usr/bin and all you need to do is create a
> symlink from 'awk' to 'gawk'
>
> hth,
> d

Donn,

Good idea. Incrementally approaching the problem will probably save some grief
further along! I hadn't thought that maybe it was a symlink between gawk and
awk. It makes sense, though, since Ubuntu uses gawk.

Glenn

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