Re: Help with Gawk for Windows 3.1.3

[Aharon Robbins]

> Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 13:14:00 -0500
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> Subject: Help with Gawk for Windows 3.1.3
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> Any idea why the gawk command complaining about the single quote.  Thank
> you for any help.

Because the command interpreter you're usring under Windows is not a
Unix shell. It's the shell that handles quote interpretation.

The quick answer is that you will be in a world of pain if you try to
use command line programs. The easiest thing to do is to put the awk
script into a file and invoke gawk that way:

        C:> gawk -f myscript.awk file1 file2 > output.txt

Or get a Unix emulation environment such as Cygwin, see http://www.cygwin.com.

Good luck,

Arnold