[GRASS-dev] Re: missing awk in WinGRASS

[Michael Barton]

Is GnuWin32 a better option than msys for this?

Michael
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On Jan 23, 2008, at 12:47 PM, Moritz Lennert wrote:

> On 23/01/08 20:35, Michael Barton wrote:
>> OK. We can do that. Thanks.
>> Is msys needed for any other aspects of GRASS -- i.e., is it  
>> required to run it? Or is it only needed if you want to do the  
>> scripts?
>
> Only for the scripts. And even for those it doesn't have to be msys.  
> You could install the individual components (a shell like bash, awk,  
> sed, etc) separately, e.g. from GnuWin32. As long as these tools are  
> in your path, this should work.
>
> Moritz