AWK95 (Windows) Current Date

[ediman4902]

I'm trying to pass the current date into an AWK95 program in a Windows based environment and when I try to put it into the command line as a variable it is failing.

Is there a way to get current date/time into a AWK95 program?

Thank you............Larry

 

[Annihilannic]

I'm not sure exactly what 'awk95' is... if it is a copy of GNU awk you can use built-in functions, e.g.

C:\>gawk 'BEGIN {print strftime("%d/%m/%y",systime())}'
05/05/08

C:\>

Annihilannic.

 

[feherke]

Hi

No, sadly [tt]awk95[/tt] is a native Windows implementation of [tt]awk[/tt]. It is almost standard compliant, but I found some misses in its regular expression handling. So no, it has nothing from the GNU enhancements.

Sadly again, the well known site for [tt]awk95[/tt] download was closed. And I found not alternative download site. While I left without [tt]awk95[/tt], seems I will never help in such questions.

Larry, I suggest to install CygWin. That way you will have [tt]gawk[/tt], then see Annihilannic's reply. ( Excepting the quoting... )

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/