mawk software package provides a pattern scanning and text processing language, you can install in your Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install mawk
mawk is installed in your system.
Make ensure the mawk package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep mawk *
You will get with mawk package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Utilities |
| Package | mawk |
| Version | 1.3.3-17ubuntu2 |
| Description | a pattern scanning and text processing language |
| Sub Section | Utils |