Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Re: cygwin startup time

On Dec 21, 9:27 am, "Christian Brabandt" <cbli...@256bit.org> wrote:
> On Tue, December 21, 2010 8:21 am, J rgen Kr mer wrote:
> > 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="^"" }"
>
> That is nasty. I wouldn't remember what that means a couple
> of hours later...
>
> regards,

Maybe its nasty but it resolved all my awk problems with the gnu
version in windows.
I created a abbreviation in order to insert "^"" faster.

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