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From:	"Hoyt, Ben" <Ben DOT Hoyt AT marconi-online DOT com>
To:	"'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	gawk system() problem?
Date:	Mon, 15 Jan 2001 09:45:42 +1300
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I'm using cygwin compiled gawk version 3.0.4 and cannot get the gawk
system() function to work. I have a file called a.awk with the following
contents:

BEGIN { print system("dir") }

I then type "gawk -f a.awk" and it prints "0" on the screen but nothing
else. The "dir" command is not executed. Anyone know why or what to do?

Note: What I actually need to do is create a directory in an awk script. I
thought I'd be able to do this with system("mkdir mydir"), but as system()
doesn't (seem to) work that's not very helpful. :-)

Thanks.


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