gawk Distribution ¶The gawk distribution has a number of C source files,
documentation files,
subdirectories, and files related to the configuration process
(see Compiling and Installing gawk on Unix-Like Systems),
as well as several subdirectories related to different non-Unix
operating systems:
These files contain the actual gawk source code.
C header and source files for routines that gawk
uses, but that are not part of its core functionality.
For example, argument parsing, regular expression matching,
and random number generating routines are all kept here.
A file containing information about GNU gettext and translations.
A file with some information about the authorship of gawk.
It exists only to satisfy the pedants at the Free Software Foundation.
Descriptive files: README for gawk under Unix and the
rest for the various hardware and software combinations.
A file providing an overview of the configuration and installation process.
A detailed list of source code changes as bugs are fixed or improvements made. There are similar files in all of the subdirectories.
Older lists of source code changes. There are similar files in all of the subdirectories.
A list of changes to gawk since the last release or patch.
There may be similar files in other subdirectories.
Older lists of changes to gawk.
There may be similar files in other subdirectories.
The GNU General Public License.
A description of behaviors in the POSIX standard for awk that
are left undefined, or where gawk may not comply fully, as well
as a list of things that the POSIX standard should describe but does not.
Pointers to the original draft of
a short article describing why gawk is a good language for
artificial intelligence (AI) programming.
A brief description of gawk’s “byte code” internals.
The troff source for a five-color awk reference card.
A modern version of troff such as GNU troff (groff) is
needed to produce the color version. See the file README.card
for instructions if you have an older troff.
The troff source for a manual page describing gawk.
This is distributed for the convenience of Unix users.
The Texinfo source file for this Web page.
It should be processed by
texi2dvi or texi2pdf
to produce a printed document, and
by makeinfo to produce an Info or HTML file.
The Makefile takes care of this processing and produces
printable output via texi2dvi or texi2pdf.
The generated Info file for this Web page.
The Texinfo source file for
TCP/IP Internetworking with gawk.
It should be processed with TeX
(via texi2dvi or texi2pdf)
to produce a printed document and
with makeinfo to produce an Info or HTML file.
The generated Info file for
TCP/IP Internetworking with gawk.
The Texinfo source file for
Participating in gawk Development.
It should be processed with TeX
(via texi2dvi or texi2pdf)
to produce a printed document and
with makeinfo to produce an Info or HTML file.
The generated Info file for
Participating in gawk Development.
The Texinfo source file for
Persistent-Memory gawk User Manual.
It should be processed with TeX
(via texi2dvi or texi2pdf)
to produce a printed document and
with makeinfo to produce an Info or HTML file.
The generated Info file for
Persistent-Memory gawk User Manual.
The troff source for a manual page describing the
persistent memory features presented in Preserving Data Between Runs.
The troff source for a manual page describing the igawk
program presented in
An Easy Way to Use Library Functions.
(Since gawk can do its own @include processing,
neither igawk nor igawk.1 are installed.)
Files for the Italian translation of this Web page, produced and contributed by Antonio Colombo and Marco Curreli.
The input file used during the configuration process to generate the actual Makefile for creating the documentation.
Files used by the GNU Automake software for generating
the Makefile.in files used by Autoconf and
configure.
These files and subdirectories are used when configuring and compiling
gawk for various Unix systems. Most of them are explained
in Compiling and Installing gawk on Unix-Like Systems. The rest are there to support the main
infrastructure.
The po library contains message translations.
The awklib directory contains a copy of extract.awk
(see Extracting Programs from Texinfo Source Files),
which can be used to extract the sample programs from the Texinfo
source file for this Web page. It also contains a Makefile.in file, which
configure uses to generate a Makefile.
Makefile.am is used by GNU Automake to create Makefile.in.
The library functions from
A Library of awk Functions,
are included as ready-to-use files in the gawk distribution.
They are installed as part of the installation process.
The rest of the programs in this Web page are available in appropriate
subdirectories of awklib/eg.
The source code, manual pages, and infrastructure files for
the sample extensions included with gawk.
See Writing Extensions for gawk, for more information.
Additional non-essential files. Currently, this directory contains some shell
startup files to be installed in /etc/profile.d to aid in manipulating
the AWKPATH and AWKLIBPATH environment variables.
See Shell Startup Files, for more information.
Files needed for building gawk on POSIX-compliant systems.
Files needed for building gawk under MS-Windows
(see Installation on MS-Windows for details).
Files needed for building gawk under OpenVMS
(see Compiling and Installing gawk on OpenVMS for details).
A test suite for
gawk. You can use ‘make check’ from the top-level gawk
directory to run your version of gawk against the test suite.
If gawk successfully passes ‘make check’, then you can
be confident of a successful port.