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Re: gawk bug


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: gawk bug
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 08:05:00 +0200

> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 13:24:53 +0300
> From: "Simon H. Charbel" <address@hidden>
> 
> I am using gawk on windows xp, when I am trying to use the following:
> gawk "{ print "test" }"  the word "test" is not printed. The gawk
> version is 3.1.3.1614

You need to escape the inner quotes, otherwise the Windows shell will
strip them off:

      gawk "{ print \"test\" }"




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