From: dumser@lesol1.dseg.ti.com (James Dumser) Subject: Re: awk acting funny 28 Oct 1996 10:05:53 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199610281436.IAA16929.cygnus.gnu-win32@lesol1.dseg.ti.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: dj@delorie.com (DJ Delorie) Original-Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-Reply-To: <199610261416.KAA27517@delorie.com> from "DJ Delorie" at Oct 26, 96 10:16:35 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Length: 593 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com On Sat, 26 Oct 1996 10:16:35 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: >> D:\bin> dir | gawk '{print "Hello " $1 }' >> GAWK.EXE: cmd. line:1: '{print >> GAWK.EXE: cmd. line:1: ^ Invalid char ''' in expression >> >> The same command produces normal output on a unix machine, no errors. > >Also works OK with djgpp's gawk. But this is because djgpp takes over command line parsing from the DOS shell, correct? In other words, djgpp is doing the job of bash in the cygwin-32 (& Unix) environment; and running the above from bash works correctly. -- James Dumser 972-462-5335 dumser@ti.com - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".