Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 00:00:37 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600
Subject: [UnixOS2_Archive] No. 705

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Thursday 18 May 2006
 Number  705
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Subjects for today
 
1  Re:  AWK script : Steven Levine" <steve53 at earthlink.net>


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Date:  Wed, 17 May 2006 09:32:10 -0700
From:  "Steven Levine" <steve53 at earthlink.net>
Subject:  Re:  AWK script

In <20060517082313.Q46 at warpix.org>, on 05/17/06
   at 08:23 AM, John Poltorak <jp at warpix.org> said:


>I was thinking of cmd.exe and don't know how to incorporate quotes when 
>quotes are actually included in the script itself.

Well, it does help to understand how the various shells handle quoting. 
You had

 awk -F';' '{for(i=2;i<NF;i++) s=s $i FS ORS; ORS=""; print s>$1}'

This may work for cmd.exe

 awk -F";" "{for(i=2;i<NF;i++) s=s $i FS ORS; ORS=^"^"; print s>$1}"

but I would not guarantee it.  It this fails, you need to use a decent
shell or use Steve's suggestion and put the script in a file.  You could
also rewrite the script in REXX, but it's going to require more than a
single line of code.


Regards,

Steven

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