# Installer goawk avec Homebrew, apk, apt, MacPorts, Nix

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de goawk pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:goawk
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install goawk
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install goawk
```

  Preuve: MacPorts ports tree: lang/goawk/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add goawk
```

  Preuve: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: goawk from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install goawk
```

  Preuve: Debian stable package indexes: goawk from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#goawk
```

  Preuve: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/go/goawk/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:goawk
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.31.0
- **Résumé source:** POSIX-compliant AWK interpreter written in Go
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://benhoyt.com/writings/goawk/>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/benhoyt/goawk>
- **Dernière mise à jour:** 2026-07-25T20:55:24-04:00
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- goawk (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 1.31.0
## Historique du projet et usages

GoAWK is Ben Hoyt's POSIX-compatible AWK interpreter written in Go, with command-line and embeddable library use cases. It began as a compact interpreter inspired by The AWK Programming Language and later grew CSV/TSV support, a bytecode virtual machine, code coverage, and an experimental AWK-to-Go compiler.

### Historique du projet

The repository was created in June 2018, and the author's November 2018 article described GoAWK as an AWK interpreter written in Go, explaining its lexer, parser, resolver, tree-walking interpreter, testing, and performance work. The README says it is feature-complete and tested against the one true AWK and GNU AWK test suites.

GoAWK moved beyond the original tree-walking interpreter in the v1.15 era, when it switched to a bytecode compiler and virtual machine for better performance. In May 2022, the author added native CSV and TSV support, including CSV input/output modes and named fields, while keeping the project POSIX-compatible.

The project continued to add package-nerd features that ordinary awk implementations rarely expose, including embeddable Go APIs, code coverage support in v1.21.0, and the experimental AWKGo compiler.

### Historique d'adoption

GoAWK is adopted as both a standalone awk-compatible command and an embeddable Go package. The README notes use in the Redpanda Connect stream processor and by the software team at the library of the University of Antwerp, the latter also sponsoring CSV work.

Distribution through Go modules, release binaries, Homebrew, Debian, MacPorts, Nix, and other package managers makes GoAWK a portable AWK option for users who want POSIX behavior, CSV-aware one-liners, or an AWK engine inside Go programs.

### Modes d'utilisation

As a CLI, GoAWK accepts ordinary awk programs and files, can be installed with go install, and supports CSV/TSV processing with -i and -o modes. As a library, Go programs can parse and execute AWK programs directly, reuse parsed programs, and configure interpreter behavior.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

GoAWK matters because it connects two package cultures: the old Unix text-processing tradition of awk one-liners and the modern Go preference for single static binaries and embeddable packages. It is a practical example of reimplementing a standard Unix language with Go's parser, module, testing, and distribution ecosystem.

Its CSV support is especially notable because classic awk field splitting is convenient but not CSV-safe. GoAWK gives package users a drop-in-ish awk command that handles real CSV and TSV data while still aiming at POSIX AWK compatibility.

### Chronologie

- 2018: The GoAWK repository was created and v1.0.0 was tagged.
- 2018: The author published the original GoAWK design and performance article.
- 2022: GoAWK adopted a bytecode compiler and virtual machine around the v1.15 release.
- 2022: GoAWK added native CSV and TSV support.
- 2022: GoAWK v1.21.0 added code coverage support.
- 2025: GoAWK v1.31.0 was tagged with minor fixes and a minimum Go version update.

### Related projects

- GoAWK is related to AWK, BWK awk, GNU Awk, POSIX awk, Redpanda Connect, the Go module ecosystem, and AWKGo, the experimental AWK-to-Go compiler included in the repository.

### Sources

- <https://benhoyt.com/writings/goawk-compiler-vm/>
- <https://benhoyt.com/writings/goawk-coverage/>
- <https://benhoyt.com/writings/goawk-csv/>
- <https://benhoyt.com/writings/goawk/>
- <https://github.com/benhoyt/goawk>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/benhoyt/goawk/master/README.md>


## Notes de sécurité

generalized runtime or code generation signal.

- **Risque Geiger:** yellow / moyen
- generalized runtime or code generation signal

## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Debian apt - goawk - 1.29.0-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: goawk from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | POSIX-compliant AWK interpreter written in Go, with CSV support (program) | https://github.com/benhoyt/goawk
- Debian apt - golang-github-benhoyt-goawk-dev - 1.29.0-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: golang-github-benhoyt-goawk-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | POSIX-compliant AWK interpreter written in Go, with CSV support (library) | https://github.com/benhoyt/goawk
- Nix - goawk: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/go/goawk/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- apk - goawk - 1.30.1-r7: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: goawk from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | POSIX-compliant AWK interpreter written in Go | https://github.com/benhoyt/goawk
- apk - goawk-doc - 1.30.1-r7: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: goawk-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | POSIX-compliant AWK interpreter written in Go (documentation) | https://github.com/benhoyt/goawk
- MacPorts - goawk: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: lang/goawk/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/goawk.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/goawk.yml)


## Sources

- 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