RE: gawk bug

[Simon H. Charbel]

Hi Eli

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.

Regards,

 Simon CHARBEL, IT AUDIT
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Eli Zaretskii [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 9:05 AM
To: Simon H. Charbel
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: gawk bug

> 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\" }"