Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: "Richard Atterer" To: Subject: gawk: system() or piping does not work due to no /bin/sh Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 11:37:07 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Hello, I encountered this problem: Executing other programs from within gawk did not seem to work, no matter whether you tried it through a pipe or with system(). Examples: gawk 'BEGIN{system("echo foobar")}' gawk 'BEGIN{while(("echo foobar"|getline l) >= 1) print l}' It turns out this is because /bin/sh doesn't exist, an "ln -s bash.exe sh" in /bin solved the problem. I installed using setup.exe with downloaded tarballs already present in the local directory. It should be noted that setup crashed towards the end the first time I ran it (IIRC, before it tried to create the menu entries), but it didn't crash on subsequent runs. Sorry for not being able to give more detailed information about the crash. This happened with an up-to-date Cygwin which I downloaded only yesterday (14 Sep 2000). Cheers, Richard -- Richard Atterer - richard.atterer@gulp.de GULP Information Services GmbH - http://www.gulp.de GULP - Das Portal für IT Projekte -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com