From:	Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: DJGPP gawk peculiarity
Date:	Sat, 10 Jan 1998 18:11:44 +0100
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Weiqi Gao wrote:
> 
> One of my coworkers showed me a peculiar behavior of the DJGPP awk:
> 
> ======================================================================
> C:\TEMP> cat junk
> 123 456
> 
> C:\> awk 'length($1) < 2 {print $1}' junk
> 123
> ======================================================================
> 
> What am I missing here?
Which version do you use?
On my linux box I have 3.0.3, and that gives the
correct answer. 
OTOH...
I wonder why this works in the first place...
Typing as above under DOS gives me a File not found. Replacing the
ticks by " works fine. I am not sure, but I guess the < 2 
gets spoiled by command.com to redirect stdin from 
a file 2. 
-- 
Ciao
Tom

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