Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com From: lro AT technologist DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <9904121249551N.21817@weba7.iname.net> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 12:49:55 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: Text/Plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Subject: B20.1: Pipes and awk Hello, I have a problem using pipes in awk. Holger Kopf had the same problems (see extract from the archives bellow), but I couldn't find an answer to his problem and he has not replied to me yet. Could you help me, please ? I've enclosed the previous mails. Thanks for your help in advance, Laurent ROCHE -------------------------------- From: Laurent ROCHE To:Holger Kopf Hello, did you get any answer about the problem you described in your following mail or (even better) did you work it out ? I have exactly the same problem with B20.1 when it used to work in B19;-(. Thanks for your help, Laurent -------------------------------------- From: Holger DOT Kopf AT datronic DOT de (Holger Kopf) Subject: B20: problems with pipes in AWK ! 24 Nov 1998 11:22:00 -0800 : To: Hi, i try to develop some solutions with awk on a Windows NT 4.0, One of the features of awk on UNIX is to evaluate inputs which i can receive from a pipe.But on NT i can't do so ! for example the following awk-script doesn't work: { "ls -l | sort -r " | getline xxx; print xxx; } The commands ls and sort do not work in that example. On a Unix-System it works very well.Please give me a little help.... CU Holger Kopf Germany ---------------------------------------------------------------- Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com