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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 22:07:09 -0400
To: "'cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com'" <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: Re: Cyngus shell question
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In-Reply-To: <02E689F991FFD311A75D009027B6A73E010AB6EC@mail01.nextcard.com>; from Gerald.LeRoy@nextcard.com on Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 06:48:02PM -0700

On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 06:48:02PM -0700, Gerald Le Roy wrote:
>This script isn't working for some reason and I don't understand why.
>
>awk 'BEGIN {FIELDWIDTHS = "31 8 41"} $1 ~ "^5" {seqid[NR - 2] = $2} END {for
>(i = NR - 4; i > 0; i-- ) print seqid[i] }' %1
>
>
>
>When I run it - it doesn't return anything - and - it echo's a script that
>is different than the one I'm trying to run
>
>
>		C:\scripts>awk 'BEGIN {FIELDWIDTHS = "31 8 41"} $1 ~ "^5"
>{seqid[NR - 2] = $2} END {for (i = NR - 4; i ; i-- ) print seqid[i] }' 365
>		1_taptran_savings.txt 1>0
>
>
>It may be that the shell is seeing the ">" symbol as a re-direct symbol
>instead of as a 'greater than' symbol.   I'm not sure how to get the shell
>to recognize this as a greater than symbol.  Can someone help - or re-direct
>me (ha) to someone who can answer my question?

I think you're right.  Since you are executing this from a .bat file, Windows
doesn't know that the ' character should quote a >.  Only Cygwin recognizes
' as a quoting character and by the time cygwin gets the command line, it is
too late because Windows has mangled it.

Can you either change the outer quotes to be ", which Windows does
recognize, or just put everything in a nice shell script and execute it
as "sh foo", i.e.

#/bin/sh
exec awk 'BEGIN {FIELDWIDTHS = "31 8 41"} $1 ~ "^5" {seqid[NR - 2] = $2}
          END {for (i = NR - 4; i > 0; i-- ) print seqid[i] }' $1

?

cgf

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