Please release new Cygwin gawk. Current version is 4.2.0 (Oct 2017), and since then 1 version has dropped [1]:
4.2.1 (Feb 2018) this new version fixes the bug [2] that was introduced with 4.2.0. [1] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gawk.git [2] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2018-02/msg00024.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
