On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:36:41 -0500 (EST), Tony Baldwin wrote: > I thought gawk (along with awk, sed, tr, etc.) was just part of > regular old gnu bash tools and would be installed by default. bash, mawk, and gawk are separate packages. bash and mawk are installed by default, since they are required packages. gawk is optional. Both mawk and gawk provide virtual package awk.