AWK - That works great! Re: unix script won't run on Win32

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That works great! Re: unix script won't run on Win32

Mitch Urquhart

2006-01-10, 3:58 am

That works great, thanks a million !
( I tried, but still had the syntax mangled)
....Mitch

"Ted Davis" <tdavis@gearbox.maem.umr.edu> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 18:36:14 GMT, "Mitch Urquhart"
> <mitchu@houston.rr.com> wrote:
>
>
> Different command line quoting conventions:
>
> awk95.exe "{printf \"%1.0f \n\" , ($1)}" corrected_4.1.txt >
> corrected_5.1.txt
>
> Note that the trailing & was removed - in Windows that must be
> followed by another command (& is unconditional - the second runs when
> the first terminates; && is conditional - the second runs if the first
> returns 0). To put a task in the background, you use the start
> command - in this case, probably with some difficulty.
>
>
> --
> T.E.D. (tdavis@gearbox.maem.umr.edu)

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