multi line batch script problem

[jjohnn]

I am copying an awk script from a book, trying to translate it to Windows XP from unix. It works if I put it all on one line in the script, but otherwise I get error messages referring to the line breaks. I tried ending the line with forward or backward slashes (a la C programming), but to no avail. Here is the script (script2.bat) that only runs on one line:

gawk -F, "{ print $4 \", \" $0}" 
| sort | 
gawk -F, "$1==LastState{ print \"\t\" $2} 
$1!=LastState {LastState=$1;
print $1;print \"\t\" $2}"

I invoke it with
C:> sed -f namestate list | script2

(I have a separate sed script that is operating on the file "list", with the results piped to script.bat)

 

[jjohnn]

never mind:

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/al...3c09?q=multiple+lines&rnum=2#40cd46e53f973c09