Re: Not sure if bug or windows problem

[Jürgen Kahrs]

address@hidden wrote:

> I´m having problems trying to use this command(from a working linux script)
> in gawk for windows  (the entire comand is more complex but i´ve reduced it
> for the example): 
> 
>       more mirror.txt | tr -d " " | gawk -F: " $1 == "ImageUID" {print
> $0}"
> 
> I´m trying to get the compare with "==" to find and print the line in
> cuestion......................

This is a quoting problem. Do it like this:

  tr -d " " < mirror.txt |  gawk -F: '$1 == "ImageUID" {print $0}'

You can replace the tr command with gawk's gsub.