running gawk in MW windows

[magicme]

hello
i have been writing and running awk scripts successfully on my HP-UX machine for a few years. awk has saved me uncountable tons of work in that period.

i also have a PC and i just installed gawk on that MS windows PC and it appears to have installed correctly. however when i open a DOS window and type in "awk -f ..." or "gawk -f ..." i get the message that "awk (or gawk)is not recognized as an internal or external command"

the DOS window is open in the same directory/folder as my awk script (that runs just fine in HP-UX).

i have to migrate some of my work over to the PC and would love to carry awk over as well.

clearly i missed a step in getting the PC to recognize that gawk is installed...... any guidance would be appreciated.

thanks, in advance

daveleo

 

[magicme]

sorry i mis-typed the title...that's MS Windows....
daveleo

 

[Salem]

You need to update your PATH variable to include the directory where you installed gawk.exe

Exactly how you do this depends on which MS operating system you're using.


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[futurelet]

In addition to making sure that the gawk executable is in your path, you may want to rename it from gawk3.3.1.exe to gawk.exe (of course).