Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!mks!wheels
From: wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: GNU awk (gawk) on MS-DOS
Summary: using awk on command line with silly command.com ...
Keywords: awk gnu gawk
Message-ID: <454@mks.UUCP>
Date: 20 May 88 20:59:12 GMT
References: <1455@titan.camcon.uucp> <11573@ut-sally.UUCP> <2347@rayssd.ray.com>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
Lines: 18

In article <2347@rayssd.ray.com>, trr@rayssd.ray.com (Terry R. Raymond) writes:
> I could not give it a script from the command  line but it works 
> when you put the script in a file and use the -f option.

One of the difficulties we find when people buy our MKS Awk for DOS is
that command line programs such as:

	awk "$3 > 0 {print $0}" somefile

will fail because command.com assumes the '>' means you want to do
redirection of output.  In other reasonable command interpreters, you
can hide the '>' from the interpreter by using the quotes. 

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