Re: readdir extension on windows with getline

[Andrew J. Schorr]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 11:19:36AM -0500, Andrew J. Schorr wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 12:17:14PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > AFAICT, the readdir extension cannot be used with getline, since
> > getline redirection seems to ignore the registered input parsers.
> 
> I don't think that's correct. Getline should work with input parsers.
> In fact, this trivial script works for me on Linux:
> 
> gawk -l readdir 'BEGIN {while ((getline < "/tmp") > 0) print}'
> 
> This same script works properly on Cygwin as well.

And this version also works on Cygwin from a bash shell:

gawk -l readdir 'BEGIN {while ((getline < "C:\\cygwin\\tmp") > 0) print}'

Regards,
Andy