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Cannot run command line scripts in perl or gawk

I originally posted this to a different forum (I am a new Perl user) and realized the error so I will ask here.

I am on a WindowsXP machine trying to run perl and gawk scripts from the command line. I have perl and gawk installed and environment set to C:\perl\bin and cannot get a script to execute from the command line in Windows. The input file is in the same directory as perl.exe. When I try gawk I also am running from cmd.exe with input file in same directory.

The message that I see follows:

"The system cannot find the file specified."

I have checked that C:\Perl\bin;C:\Perl\site\bin are in the environment PATH. I don't see gawk anywhere in there though. Maybe that's a problem. Does anyone have any ideas about what I can change to get perl and gawk to work from the cmd.exe window?

I can run the simple command in perl to check the version number with no errors - 'perl -v'. Maybe that helps.

perl script - "perl -lne 'if ($.<=4) {push @x,$_} else {$x[($.-1)%4] .=" ".(split)[2]} END {print for @x}' inputfilename"
gawk script - "gawk 'NR<5 {a[$2]=$0;next} {a[$2]=a[$2] FS $NF}END {for (i in a) print a[i]|"sort -n"}' inputfilename'
Thanks to all of you. - 10000Springs(BC)

Last edited by 10000springs; 09-20-2010 at 02:14 AM.. Reason: Forgot to add scripts used -duh!

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igawk

IGAWK(1)							 Utility Commands							  IGAWK(1)

NAME

       igawk - gawk with include files

SYNOPSIS

       igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ...
       igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ...

DESCRIPTION

       Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1).

       AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like

	      @include getopt.awk

       in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path.

OPTIONS

       See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports.

EXAMPLES

       cat << EOF > test.awk
       @include getopt.awk

       BEGIN {
	    while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1)
		 ...
       }
       EOF

       igawk -f test.awk

SEE ALSO

       gawk(1)

       Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995.

AUTHOR

       Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com).

Free Software Foundation					    Nov 3 1999								  IGAWK(1)

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