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: hmmm, a correction to a previous msg
Keywords: awk gnu gawk
Message-ID: <458@mks.UUCP>
Date: 24 May 88 22:02:12 GMT
References: <1455@titan.camcon.uucp> <11573@ut-sally.UUCP> <2347@rayssd.ray.com> <454@mks.UUCP>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
Lines: 27

In article <454@mks.UUCP>, I wrote:
> 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.

I have since received mail noting that this has not been the case since
version 3.1.  It seems the newer versions of command.com will properly
ignore '>' and '<' when placed within quotes.

The same person said it would ignore '|' too, but my tests indicate
otherwise.  Has anybody else tried this? My test was:

	C> dir | egrep "DIR|foo"

(using egrep from the MKS Toolkit, naturally).  Command.com gave the
error "bad command or file name".  I presume it was trying to find and
execute foo. 

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