gawk software package provides GNU awk, a pattern scanning and processing language, you can install in your Debian 7 (Wheezy) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install gawk
gawk is installed in your system.
Make ensure the gawk package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep gawk *
You will get with gawk package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Debian 7 wheezy |
| Section | Interpreters |
| Package | gawk |
| Version | 1:4.0.1+dfsg-2.1+b1 [s390x], 1 |
| Description | GNU awk, a pattern scanning and processing language |
| Sub Section | Interpreters |