gawk not taking redirected input under command.com

[Don Sharp]

Is it possible that cmd.exe (and command.com) redirections and pipes are
not acceptable whereas bash.exe uses Cygwin implemented redirections?

Cheers

Don Sharp

Barry Buchbinder wrote:
> 
> 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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