Awk Missing

[Glenn R Williams]

Michael,

gawk is probably what you want. you could get the source from

http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk/

There are many versions there. Once you install and run, you could update 
Ubuntu with synaptic and get the Ubuntu version of gawk.

HTH,

Glenn

On Sunday 14 December 2008 10:23:10 Michael Satterwhite wrote:
> Earlier, I reported a problem with Apt. Don pointed me to a missing symlink
> for apt. On closer examination, I found that Awk is missing from my system.
> I have no idea how I could have done a new Hardy install and not have awk,
> but clearly it happened.
>
> Could someone point me at a place that I could get awk (sources for
> a ./configure, make, make install would be fine)? I'll keep googling, but
> If you no of a place, you could save me some time..
>
> Thanks