Re: Problem with win32 version

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:43:26 +0100 (CET)
> From: "Patrick Marquetecken" <address@hidden>
> Cc: 
> 
> C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin>gawk -F: '{ print $1 }' c:/etc/passwd
> I get this error
> gawk: cmd. line:1: '{
> gawk: cmd. line:1: ^ invalid char ''' in expression

That's because ' isn't a quote character on Windows, so Gawk gets the
program in 4 separate arguments, not as one argument.

Try

    gawk -F: "{ print $1 }" c:/etc/passwd

(i.e., use " for quoting) and I think it should work for you.