Re: Difference beetwen awk and gawk?

On 2007-12-04, Dawid Murga³a <murgala@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Hi,
I'm new to awk, I wrote a simple script using gawk, then change it to awk:

awk '/[0-9]+ [a-z0-9]+/{printf " \047%s\047)\n", $1 > "text.txt"}END{printf "END\n" > "test.txt"}' afile.dat

afile.dat :
123456 abc
111111 abcd

It works with gawk, but in awk returns an error:

.wk: 0602-533 Cannot find or open file afile.dat
The source line number is 1.
Syntax Error The source line is 1.


Any ideas? afile.dat has read rights.

Maybe when you converted your script from gawk to awk, you also
converted (or failed to convert) the line endings, and you get the error
message because there is no file named "afile.dat^M"
.

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