Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 14:50:29 +0200 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Bridge between windows and Cygwin to use awk on windows files Message-ID: <20020911125029.GF759@thomas-guettler.de> Reply-To: Thomas Guettler References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i From: Thomas Guettler On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 08:25:51PM -0700, Bassim Karkachi wrote: > Hi - > I'm beginner, I'm trying to set up a directory where I can find windows > files while using cygwin. I would like to be able to run some awk script on > windows created files. Any help or suggestion What do you mean with "windows created files"? Do you mean MS-Word and Excel files? Sorry, but they use a binary unkown file format. You might be able to export them to text, csv or html and then use cygwin tools on those files. thomas -- Thomas Guettler http://www.thomas-guettler.de -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/