gawk not taking redirected input under command.com

[Christopher Faylor]

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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