mawk mit Homebrew installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage

Befehle und Aliase

• mawk

Projektgeschichte

The current official mawk page says Mike Brennan wrote mawk, that it had no maintainer for a time, and that Thomas E. Dickey adopted it in 2009 by starting with Debian package fixes and unresolved reports. The official changelog preserves the older 1.3 series history and shows the long maintenance gap being bridged by Debian patches and later upstream work.

The manpage frames mawk as a 'new awk' implementation of the AWK language defined by Aho, Kernighan, and Weinberger, with POSIX draft compatibility and a small set of implementation extensions.

Adoptionsgeschichte

mawk's adoption has been strongest in Unix-like packaging culture. The official page lists package links for AIX, Arch, DragonFly BSD, Fedora, Fink, FreeBSD, Gentoo, Haiku, Homebrew, HPUX, MacPorts, Mageia, and others, and the input confirms distribution through common Linux and macOS package managers.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users invoke `mawk` like other AWK implementations: short programs can be passed on the command line, longer programs via `-f`, and input comes from files or standard input. Its `-W` options expose mawk-specific behavior such as dump, interactive mode, POSIX mode, traditional mode, and version output.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

mawk matters because AWK is one of the classic packaging and build-script workhorses. It gives packagers a small, fast AWK implementation whose behavior must be tracked carefully against POSIX awk, BWK awk, and GNU awk.

Zeitleiste

• 1996: mawk 1.3 and 1.3.2 releases appear in the official changelog.
• 2008: Debian patches are incorporated into the later upstream maintenance history.
• 2009: Thomas E. Dickey adopts mawk maintenance.
• 2010: 1.3.4 maintenance snapshots begin after the original 1.3.3 plus Debian patches baseline.
• 2026: Official changelog still records active maintenance.

Related projects

• awk, BWK awk, GNU awk, POSIX awk, Debian mawk package

Quellen

• https://invisible-island.net/mawk/
• https://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES.html
• https://invisible-island.net/mawk/manpage/mawk.html
• source_facts.package-manager-url