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Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 09:40:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Bridge between windows and cygwin to use awk on windows files
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On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 12:04:38AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, 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
> >> Bassim
> >
> >You can already access all of your windows files with cygwin:
> >- from within bash/tcsh/sh:
> >       $ cat /cygdrive/c/Temp/blah.txt | awk -e '...'
> >  or even
> >       $ cat `cygpath -u 'C:\Temp\blah.txt'` | awk -e '...'
> >- from a dos prompt (you should have C:\cygwin\bin in your path):
> >       C:\> type C:\Temp\blah.txt | awk -e "..."
>
> Why not just
>
> awk -e "..." filename
>
> ?
> cgf

I suppose I wanted to make the distinction between bash and the command
prompt more obvious (in terms of quoting, etc), but you are, of course,
right.
	Igor
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