gawk: system() or piping does not work due to no /bin/sh

[David Starks-Browning]

On Friday 15 Sep 00, Richard Atterer writes:
> Hello,
> 
> I encountered this problem: Executing other programs from within gawk did
> not seem to work, no matter whether you tried it through a pipe or with
> system(). Examples:
> 
> gawk 'BEGIN{system("echo foobar")}'
> gawk 'BEGIN{while(("echo foobar"|getline l) >= 1) print l}'
> 
> It turns out this is because /bin/sh doesn't exist, an "ln -s bash.exe sh"
> in /bin solved the problem.

Or install the package 'ash', this contains /bin/sh.  This is noted in
the README file and the FAQ.

David


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