> Hi,
>
> rameo wrote:
> > Can anyone please tell me how to print a text in vim (windows) using
> > awk?
>
> > This command works in cygwin:
> > awk 'BEGIN { print "test=" }'
>
> > but whatever I do I cannot print the word "test=" or whatever other
> > word using awk in vim.
>
> cmd.exe does not handle single quotes, so you have to enclose the whole
> argument to awk with double quotes. awk does not seem to accept single
> quotes either (I'm not sure, because I don't normally use awk), so you
> have to put double quotes around test= , too. The problem is now: How
> to put quotes inside quotes? One (the?) solution: Put everything except
> the quotes inside quotes and escape the quotes that need to be there
> for awk. The escape char in cmd.exe is a caret, so you finally get this
> command:
>
> :r !awk "BEGIN { print "^""test="^"" }"
>
> Regards,
> J�rgen
>
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Thank you
What a great solution :)
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