RE: gawk not taking redirected input under command.com

[Barry Buchbinder <bbuchbinder at yahoo dot com>]

It's definitly cygwin's gawk doing it.

  C:\> c:\cygwin\bin\gawk -f t < autoexec.bat
  GAWK: t:3: fatal: file `-' is a directory

The following gives the expect output:

  C:\> c:\cygwin\bin\gawk -f t autoexec.bat

There is no other gawk in the path.

In bash:

  /c> type -a gawk
  gawk is /bin/gawk
  /c> /bin/which gawk
  /bin/gawk

In command.com, using both cygwin which and an MS-DOS
which:

  C:\> c:\cygwin\bin\which.exe gawk
  /usr/bin/gawk

  C:\> c:\bin\which.exe gawk
  C:/CYGWIN/BIN/gawk.exe

In command.com, doing "dir /s /b" on all of the C:
drive:

  C:\> dir /s /b gawk.exe
  C:\cygwin\bin\gawk.exe

Similar searches for gawk.bat and gawk.com find
nothing.

- Barry

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Faylor
[mailto:cgf-cygwin@cygwin.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 10:14 am
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: gawk not taking redirected input under
command.com

On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 05:47:52AM -0700, Barry
Buchbinder wrote:
>I have a problem with gawk.
>
>Under bash, it works as expected.
>
>Under command.com (win98se) it does the following
when
>taking input from a pipe or by redirection.
>
>  C:\> cat autoexec.bat | gawk '{ print "!" $0 "!" }'
>  GAWK: cmd. line:2: fatal: file `-' is a directory
>
>  C:\> gawk '{ print "!" $0 "!" }' < autoexec.bat
>  GAWK: cmd. line:2: fatal: file `-' is a directory

Sounds like you have another, non-cygwin version of
gawk on your system.

cgf


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