Subject: Re: awk acting funny
From: [email-masked] (James Dumser)

28 Oct 1996 10:05:53 -0800
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In-Reply-To: <[email-masked]> from "DJ Delorie" at Oct 26, 96 10:16:35 am
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On Sat, 26 Oct 1996 10:16:35 -0400, DJ Delorie <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> D:\bin> dir | gawk '{print "Hello " $1 }'
>> GAWK.EXE: cmd. line:1: '{print
>> GAWK.EXE: cmd. line:1: ^ Invalid char ''' in expression
>> 
>> The same command produces normal output on a unix machine, no errors.
>
>Also works OK with djgpp's gawk.

But this is because djgpp takes over command line parsing from the DOS
shell, correct? In other words, djgpp is doing the job of bash in the
cygwin-32 (& Unix) environment; and running the above from bash works
correctly.

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James Dumser    972-462-5335 [email-masked]
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