Run on commandline but not in batch script (windows)

[pigna]

To explain my question I build a small testcase. I have a command that seems to run fine when executed on commandline in windows:

C:\Tools\gawk>echo Hello World|gawk "{ for (i = 1; i <= NF ; i++) printf \"%s\t\", substr($i,1,7); }"
Hello World


However when I do run it in a cmd file it goes wrong:
C:\Tools\gawk>test
C:\Tools\gawk>echo Hello World | gawk "{ for (i = 1; i <= NF ; i++) printf \"s\t\", substr($i,1,7); }"
s s


Anyone who can explain this?

 

[p5wizard]

You omitted a % character in the second run ???

Or the cmd interpreter has eaten it?

In that case, try doubling it or quoting it with a backslash like you did for the embedded double quotes in the file test.cmd


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[feherke]

Hi

On Windows I would run [tt]awk[/tt] scripts from file, because the escaping is negligibly weak in cmd.exe.

[blue]C:\>[/blue] type script.awk
{ for (i = 1; i <= NF ; i++) printf "%s\t", substr($i,1,7); }

[blue]C:\>[/blue] echo Hello World | gawk -f script.awk
Hello   World

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[Kipnep70]

Sometimes running a batch file with "call" preceding it works, even though I guess CALL just allows you to run a batch job within another...

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/call.mspx?mfr=true