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On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 12:04:38AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Bassim Karkachi wrote: > > > >> Hi - > >> I'm beginner, I'm trying to set up a directory where I can find windows > >> files while using cygwin. I would like to be able to run some awk script on > >> windows created files. Any help or suggestion > >> Bassim > > > >You can already access all of your windows files with cygwin: > >- from within bash/tcsh/sh: > > $ cat /cygdrive/c/Temp/blah.txt | awk -e '...' > > or even > > $ cat `cygpath -u 'C:\Temp\blah.txt'` | awk -e '...' > >- from a dos prompt (you should have C:\cygwin\bin in your path): > > C:\> type C:\Temp\blah.txt | awk -e "..." > > Why not just > > awk -e "..." filename > > ? > cgf I suppose I wanted to make the distinction between bash and the command prompt more obvious (in terms of quoting, etc), but you are, of course, right. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! It took the computational power of three Commodore 64s to fly to the moon. It takes a 486 to run Windows 95. Something is wrong here. -- SC sig file -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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