# bioawk mit Homebrew, apt, Nix installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für bioawk in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:bioawk
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install bioawk
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install bioawk
```

  Evidenz: Debian stable package indexes: bioawk from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#bioawk
```

  Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/bi/bioawk/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:bioawk
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Paketmanager-Seite:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/bioawk>
- **Version:** 1.0
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** AWK modified for biological data
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/lh3/bioawk>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/lh3/bioawk>
- **Upstream-Dokumentation:** <https://github.com/lh3/bioawk#readme>
- **Lizenz:** HPND
- **Quellarchiv:** <https://github.com/lh3/bioawk/archive/refs/tags/v1.0.tar.gz>
- **Generiert:** 2026-07-10T07:20:53+00:00

## Executables

- bioawk (cli)
- bioawk (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Post-install-Hook: nicht definiert
- Bottle: verfügbar auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-07-10
- Manager-Version: 1.0
- lokale Daten: OK
- Upstream-Repository: https://github.com/lh3/bioawk
- neueste erkannte Version: v1.0 (aktuell)
- Info: No package-manager update timestamp was available.
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

bioawk is a small but durable bioinformatics command-line package: Brian Kernighan's awk modified to understand common genomics text formats and gzip-compressed input.

### Projektgeschichte

The lh3/bioawk repository was created on GitHub in January 2012 and describes the project as BWK awk modified for biological data. Its README says bioawk extends Brian Kernighan's awk with BED, GFF, SAM, VCF, FASTA/FASTQ, tab-delimited headers, gzip support through zlib, and biosequence helper functions while falling back to original awk behavior when the biological extensions are not used.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

bioawk spread through the practical genomics command-line ecosystem rather than through a large application platform. The input package metadata lists Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, and Nix packages, which is exactly the distribution pattern expected for a small Unix filter that bioinformaticians drop into shell pipelines.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Common uses include extracting fields from VCF or SAM, converting FASTA/FASTQ records, reverse-complementing sequences, and using `-c fastx`, `-c sam`, `-c vcf`, or `-c hdr` to make biological records feel like awk fields.

It is especially useful when the job is too small for a full Python or Perl script but too biological for plain awk.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

bioawk is package-nerd catnip because it is not a new workflow engine or framework; it is the old Unix text-processing model with just enough domain knowledge to remove glue code. It keeps awk's one-liner culture alive inside genomics pipelines.

### Zeitleiste

- 2012: lh3/bioawk repository created on GitHub.
- 2012: v1.0 tag published in the repository.
- 2010s: Packaged by Unix-like distributions for bioinformatics shell workflows.

### Related projects

- bioawk is directly related to BWK awk, zlib, and command-line genomics tools such as samtools, bcftools, BED/GFF utilities, and FASTA/FASTQ pipeline filters.

### Quellen

- <https://api.github.com/repos/lh3/bioawk>
- <https://github.com/lh3/bioawk>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lh3/bioawk/master/README.md>
- source_facts.package-manager


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Details aus der Quelldatenbank

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** bioawk
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** stable

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Debian apt - bioawk - 1.0-5: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: bioawk from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | extension of awk for biological sequence analysis | https://github.com/lh3/bioawk
- Nix - bioawk: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/bi/bioawk/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - bioawk - 1.0-4: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: bioawk from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | extension of awk for biological sequence analysis | https://github.com/lh3/bioawk


## Verwandte Links

- [Source-control packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/source-control-tools/) - Belongs to a source-control command family.
- [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata.
- [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata.
- [Database and data packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/database-data-tools/) - Matched database, SQL, migration, or data-store metadata.
- [abpoa](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/abpoa/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: bioinformatics, cli, science.
- [abricate](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/abricate/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: bioinformatics, cli, science.
- [abyss](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/abyss/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: bioinformatics, cli, science.
- [adapterremoval](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/adapterremoval/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: bioinformatics, cli, science.
- [alevin-fry](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/alevin-fry/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: bioinformatics, cli, science.
- [any2fasta](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/any2fasta/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: bioinformatics, cli, science.
- [augustus](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/augustus/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: bioinformatics, cli, science.
- [autocycler](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/autocycler/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: bioinformatics, cli, science.
- [bamtools](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/bamtools/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: bioinformatics, cli, data, science.
- [bedops](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/bedops/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: bioinformatics, cli, data, science.

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/bioawk.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/bioawk.yml)


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- Nucleus package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- package-page enrichment
- curated package history
- package version freshness
- av.db category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph