[GRASS-dev] Re: missing awk in WinGRASS

[Michael Barton]

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?

Michael
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On Jan 23, 2008, at 12:37 PM, Moritz Lennert wrote:

> On 23/01/08 17:32, Michael Barton wrote:
>> 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?
>
> As it says in the readme: "in order for shell scripts to work, you  
> will have to add msys' lib and bin directories to your path in the  
> grass63.bat file."
>
> Concretely this means uncommenting (i.e. deleting the 'rem') the  
> last of the following lines in grass63.bat and adapting it to your  
> installation
>
> rem Path to utilities used by some scripts, such as awk, sed, etc
> rem (adjust to where you installed msys, gnuwin32, or other similar  
> utilises)
> rem set set PATH=%PATH%;c:\msys\1.0\bin;c:\msys\1.0\lib
>
> Moritz