awk fails when called from the cmd or cmdproxy shell. The shell does not interpret correctly the link to gawk. Apparently this observation was reported several times in the internet.
Changing all "awk" to "gawk" in my scripts works fine, but a more elegant solution would be desirable. Karsten Fischer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/