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

[Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>]

On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 11:37:07AM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote:
>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.

The lack of /bin/sh means that your installation is corrupted.

>I installed using setup.exe with downloaded tarballs already present in the
>local directory. It should be noted that setup crashed towards the end the
>first time I ran it (IIRC, before it tried to create the menu entries), but
>it didn't crash on subsequent runs. Sorry for not being able to give more
>detailed information about the crash.

If setup crashed, that explains the problem.  If you can't provide any details
then this will have to remain a mystery, I guess.

cgf

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