Re: Suspected bug with gawk sed function and with sed

[John Cowan]

Robert Greiner scripsit:

> I love your Windows version of Unix utilities, but I have run into an
> intractable problem: how do you substitute a given character with a
> literal double quote? I have tried both gawk's sub function as well as
> sed, but I cannot get either to work.

You are suffering from the limitations of cmd.exe, so you will have
the same problem in any program.  You should either switch to a real
Unix-compatible shell (there are several available for Windows) or else
put your awk/sed code into a file and execute it with the -f option.

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