No Response from Command Line 1

[alex20850]

I am running awk95.exe on Windows 2000 in a dos prompt window.
I typed in awk "Begin {print \"Don't panic!\" }" and then press Enter.

I get a blank line with no response and it is there permanently.

If I do Ctrl+C, then I get a prompt.

If I type the commands into a file and run the file, it works.

Is there some setting I need to turn on?

Thanks,
Alex

 

[Salem]

Shouldn't it be BEGIN
All in upper case


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[futurelet]

Right. Unlike Pascal, awk is case-sensitive.
BEGIN, END, FS, OFS, RS, ORS, NR, etc., must be in
upper case.

 

[PHV]

Anyway, as there is no exit instruction, the awk program try to read the standard input.

Hope This Help, PH.
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[Salem]

> Anyway, as there is no exit instruction, the awk program try to read the standard input.
Just tried it with GNU AWK.

If you only have a BEGIN (and no END or patterns), then it just runs the BEGIN section and exits without reading.



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[PHV]

Salem, you're absolutely right. Seems that nawk exhibit the same behavior. Enjoy my pink consideration.