[GRASSLIST:10800] Re: awk not found on Mac osx, Repost

[Dave Kent]

Thanks

 From the terminal:

[DDKG5:~] davekent% awk
Usage: awk [-f programfile | 'program'] [-Ffieldsep] [-v var=value]  
[files]


 From the Grass Command Line

GRASS 6.1.cvs (SaskNad83UTM) > awk
Usage: awk [-f programfile | 'program'] [-Ffieldsep] [-v var=value]  
[files]

It seems to invoke awk in both cases.


 From William's note I tried   "which awk"

GRASS 6.1.cvs (SaskNad83UTM) > which awk
/usr/bin/awk

This is the one present in the OSX system files.

With respect to fink, the only file on my system (Spotlight search  
for FINK) is FinkCommander.pl.  I haven't used it.


So, on a whim I opened the v.db.addcol script and commented out the  
portion of the script which tests to see if AWK is present.

v.db.addcol   appears to work.

Emboldened by my apparent success, I did the same with d.qgis which  
is a second instance where I got the Awk not present error message.   
This works as well.

It seems that the problem is not whether AWK is present, but with  
the  test to see if AWK is present.

Any thoughts on the cause of this.

I'm hoping that the problem isn't too deep as commenting out code  
pretty much taps out my programming skills.

Thanks

Dave



On Mar 7, 2006, at 5:43 PM, Dave Kent wrote:

> Thanks Michael:
>
> I get:
>
> GRASS 6.1.cvs (SaskNad83UTM) > $PATH
> tcsh: /usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/grasslib/bin:/ 
> Applications/Grass/grass61cvs.app/Contents/Resources/grass-6.1.cvs/ 
> bin:/Applicati
> ons/Grass/grass61cvs.app/Contents/Resources/grass-6.1.cvs/scripts:/ 
> usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin: Command not found.
>
>
> Looks like  /usr/bin is present.  In fact it is in twice.  Could  
> this be a problem?
>
> What does "command not found" indicate?
>
> Dave
>
>
> On Mar 7, 2006, at 11:34 AM, Michael Barton wrote:
>
>> It sounds like a path problem. That is, it sounds like /usr/bin is  
>> not in your default path, or at least the one active within the  
>> GRASS environment. From the GRASS command line, type
>>
>> $PATH
>>
>> (followed by return) and see if /usr/bin is in the list of folders.
>>
>> Michael
>> ______________________________
>> Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
>> School of Human Evolution and Social Change
>> Arizona State University
>> Tempe, AZ  85287-2402
>> USA
>>
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>>
>>
>> From: Dave Kent <dkent at sasktel.net>
>> Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 23:11:40 -0600
>> To: <GRASSLIST at baylor.edu>
>> Subject: [GRASSLIST:10784] awk not found on Mac osx, Repost
>>
>> I posted this some time ago.  Markus responded with a change which  
>> has been incorporated into CVS code.
>>
>> However, this hasn't helped things for me as I still am getting a  
>> problem with "awk required"
>>
>> I am using 6.1 CVS with Lorenzo's binaries (06 March 06 ) on a  
>> macintosh OS 10.4.
>>
>> When I try to add a database column I get:
>>
>> v.db.addcol map=CondieHead layer=1 'columns=Elev varchar(10)'
>> csh: /sw/bin/init.csh: No such file or directory.
>> : awk required, please install awk/gawk first
>>
>>
>> This suggests awk is absent.  When I invoke awk from the grass  
>> command line, I get:
>>
>> GRASS 6.1.cvs (SaskNad83UTM) > awk
>> Usage: awk [-f programfile | 'program'] [-Ffieldsep] [-v  
>> var=value] [files]
>>
>>
>> This suggests that awk is present as it lists  the help line.
>>
>> I have not installed awk/gawk.  It is present in the Mac OSX  
>> installation at    /usr/bin/awk
>>
>> Are there some environmental or other settings I need to set so  
>> that Grass sees awk?
>>
>> This also happens when opening a QGIS connection from the display  
>> manager.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>

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