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brew install gawk v5.4.0 GPL-3.0-or-later

GNU implementation of awk, a text-processing language for extracting and transforming column/record data.

Why you might care

awk is a standard POSIX tool for rapid one-liners and scripts that filter, split, and aggregate text fields; gawk extends it with built-in math (via gmp/mpfr), coprocesses, and dynamic regex. Reach for it over sed when you need structured parsing or stateful transforms.

Categories

text-processor interpreter

Alternatives

mawk nawk sed perl
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30-day installs · #841
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90-day · #811
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365-day · #726

Runtime dependencies

gmp mpfr readline gettext

Links

Caveats

GNU "awk" has been installed as "gawk".
If you need to use it as "awk", you can add a "gnubin" directory
to your PATH from your ~/.bashrc and/or ~/.zshrc like:

    PATH="$HOMEBREW_PREFIX/opt/gawk/libexec/gnubin:$PATH"

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