awk software package provides virtual package provided by original-awk, mawk, gawk, you can install in your Debian 9 (Stretch) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install awk
awk is installed in your system.
Make ensure the awk package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep awk*
You will get with awk package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Debian 9 stretch |
| Section | Virtual packages |
| Package | awk |
| Version | |
| Description | virtual package provided by original-awk, mawk, gawk |
| Sub Section | Virtual |
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