# mawk mit Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, zypper installieren
Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für mawk in AI-Agent-Workflows.
## Installation
```sh
sudo av install brew:mawk
```
Weitere Installationsbefehle:
### macOS
- Homebrew (100%):
```sh
brew install mawk
```
Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata
- MacPorts (94%):
```sh
sudo port install mawk
```
Evidenz: MacPorts ports tree: lang/mawk/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
### Linux
- apk (92%):
```sh
sudo apk add mawk
```
Evidenz: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: mawk from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
- Debian apt (92%):
```sh
sudo apt install mawk
```
Evidenz: Debian stable package indexes: mawk from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
- dnf (92%):
```sh
sudo dnf install mawk
```
Evidenz: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: mawk from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst
- Nix (92%):
```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#mawk
```
Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ma/mawk/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- zypper (92%):
```sh
sudo zypper install mawk
```
Evidenz: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: mawk from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst
## Paketfakten
- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:mawk
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.3.4-20260302
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Interpreter for the AWK Programming Language
- **Homepage:**
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00
## Executables
- mawk (Alias)
## Installationsverhalten
- Bottle: nicht verfügbar
## Version und Aktualität
- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 1.3.4-20260302
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung
mawk is a compact AWK interpreter used for fast pattern scanning, text processing, and shell scripting.
### 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
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## Sicherheitshinweise
generalized runtime or code generation signal.
- **Geiger-Risiko:** yellow / mittel
- generalized runtime or code generation signal
## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge
- Debian apt - mawk - 1.3.4.20250131-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: mawk from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Pattern scanning and text processing language | https://invisible-island.net/mawk/
- Nix - mawk: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ma/mawk/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - mawk - 1.3.4.20240123-1build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: mawk from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Pattern scanning and text processing language | https://invisible-island.net/mawk/
- apk - mawk - 1.3.4_p20260302-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: mawk from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | mawk is an interpreter for the AWK Programming Language | https://invisible-island.net/mawk/
- apk - mawk-doc - 1.3.4_p20260302-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: mawk-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | mawk is an interpreter for the AWK Programming Language (documentation) | https://invisible-island.net/mawk/
- dnf - mawk - 1.3.4-8.20260302.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: mawk from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Interpreter for the AWK programming language | https://invisible-island.net/mawk/
- zypper - mawk - 1.3.4.20240622-1.8: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: mawk from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Implementation of New/POSIX AWK | https://invisible-island.net/mawk/mawk.html
- MacPorts - mawk: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: lang/mawk/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
## Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/mawk.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/mawk.yml)
## Quellen
- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph