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Re: Gawk gsub puzzle
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Jürgen Kahrs |
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Re: Gawk gsub puzzle |
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Fri, 07 Jul 2006 19:38:55 +0200 |
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Celsus English wrote:
> Am I missing something here in this very simple test ? .....
Yes, please read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awk#Criticism
The most common problem with AWK on Microsoft-platforms
is the quoting problem: When using AWK source code on
the command line, users often overlook the details of
quoting. While the ' and " characters have a well-defined
meaning in Unix environments, their semantics in the
command line interpreter of Microsoft is different.