Re: New Gawk User

[Kees Zeelenberg]

Bob Proulx wrote:

> The problem is that you are using the MS-Windows command.com command
> line but trying to use Unix shell style quoting.  On your command line
> you need to use double quotes instead of single quotes.  I don't have
> an MS-Windows machine to test this on but I would guess you would need
> to do something like this using double quotes instead.
> 
>   gawk "{ print $1 }" list
> 
> Bob
This is correct. On MS-Windows, double quotes should be used. See
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/install.html, under Filename globbing and
quoted arguments
In the second example, /etc/passwd does not normally exist on MS-Windows,
but it is perfectly legitimate to create such a directory and file at the
root of the current drive, and then gawk will find it.

-kz


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