awk bug in cygwin 1.5.5 under windows xp

[Corinna Vinschen]

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

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