On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 11:19:10AM +0200, Karsten Fischer wrote: > awk fails when called from the cmd or cmdproxy shell. The shell does not > interpret correctly the link to gawk. Apparently this observation was
That's a problem of the shell, not of gawk. The installation procedure of gawk on Cygwin is identical to the installation procedure of gawk on Linux. awk is just a symlink to gawk. > reported several times in the internet. > > Changing all "awk" to "gawk" in my scripts works fine, but a more > elegant solution would be desirable. Using ash, bash, ksh, pdksh, tcsh, zsh would actually help. The Cygwin distribution is not designed to run in a native Windows shell in the first place. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/
