On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Harald Kierer wrote: > > From: Chiranth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > On Feb 3, Harald Kierer wrote.... > > >How can awk write Windows-like text files from within the script? > > >The only way right now is to redirect the whole output like above. > > > > perhaps you would like to keep awk working the way it is currently and > > call use the program unix2dos to convert the output file to > > DOS format. > > > > You can write it in a single shell script somewhat like this... > > > > #!/bin/bash > > > > awk -v v_OutFile="c:/x" -f example.awk /etc/passwd > > > > dos2unix "c:/x" > > Thank you for the suggestion. This is how we are dealing with the > problem right now. > > > IMO it would be a pain if awk were to output data with Windows style > > line terminators. It would affect other programs to which > > data is piped > > from awk. > > gawk did output Windows style files in our last used cygwin version > (which was quite old, but anyway). So this behaviour apparently > changed at some point and we end up changing our scripts. > > bye, > Harry
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