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install.sh fails when awk is not installed #149

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@kevynf

What do you want to change?

I’d like to remove the hard dependency on awk from infra/release/install.sh so the documented Bash installer also works in environments where awk is not installed.

Why?

In the Fedora Linux 44 WSL environment I tested, no awk implementation was initially installed. The documented installation command failed while reading the release manifest:

bash: line 33: awk: command not found

The README does not list awk as a prerequisite, and the installer does not check for it before use.

How? (optional)

I plan to replace the current awk calls with Bash built-ins while preserving the existing manifest parsing, checksum verification, and shell-profile update behavior, with regression coverage for installation without awk.

If this approach is acceptable, I’d like to implement it and submit a PR.

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