Re: gawk bug

[Bob Proulx]

Simon H. Charbel wrote:
> Thank you for you reply, it is like windows didn't understood the
> command (as always) and still consider "test" as a variable and not a
> word to print. If you have any other solution, please send.

I believe that with MS-Windows your best path would be to install the
Cygwin environment.  Cygwin tries hard to provide a standard POSIX
environment on that platform.

  http://www.cygwin.com

Second best would be to place your awk script in a file by itself and
to pass this as an option to awk.  As I recall it is common to create
a .bat script of the command name and have it call awk and the awk
script.

File script.awk:
  {
    print "test"
  }

New command line:

  awk -f script.awk

This way quoting problems are completely avoided.

Bob