[GRASS-dev] Re: missing awk in WinGRASS

[Michael Barton]

Hmmm.

Looking in the bin directory in msys, there IS an awk and gawk.exe.

So why would scripts complain about not having it? Is there something  
in the batch file that needs to be set so that GRASS knows that it's  
there?

Michael
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On Jan 23, 2008, at 8:32 AM, Moritz Lennert wrote:

> On 23/01/08 16:06, Michael Barton wrote:
>> I've run into a problem that a number of scripts require awk and  
>> the installation of WinGRASS we've put in the lab doesn't have it.  
>> Is there a special way to install MSys to make sure we've got this?
>
> I thought that awk is part of the basic msys installation, but if  
> not, you can just install the gawk-3.1.5-MSYS-1.0.11-1.tar.bz2  
> package which you can find at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435 
> .
>
> Moritz