Mawk

The mawk utility is not currently in the cygwin repository. However, it is available from a third party repository:

http://artfiles.org/cygwin.org/pub/cygwinports/release-2/mawk/

Replacing gawk with mawk

It is not possible to remove gawk using apt-cyg:

apt-cyg remove gawk
apt-cyg cannot remove package gawk, exiting

To replace gawk with awk:

• Download the precompiled mawk package:

wget http://artfiles.org/cygwin.org/pub/cygwinports/release-2/mawk/mawk-1.3.4.20100625-1.tar.bz2

• Unpack the precompiled package:

tar xjf mawk-1.3.4.20100625-1.tar.bz2

• Install the mawk interpreter:

cp usr/bin/mawk.exe /usr/bin/mawk.exe

• Update the awk symlink:

cd /usr/bin
rm awk.exe
ln -s mawk.exe awk.exe

• Delete the gawk executable

rm /usr/bin/gawk.exe