Is there something I'm doing wrong?
this gives an output:
echo "hello world" | awk '{ print $0 }'
this does not:
echo "" | awk '{ print "hello world" }'
(neither does awk 'BEGIN{ print "hello world" }'
)
this is gnu awk on windows.
For the purpose of this question, all I'd like to do is print a string. This runs as expected on WSL/MSYS etc., but doesn't produce output when on windows (using powershell, with awk from git's linux tools and with awk installed from choco, same result. )
I couldn't find any questions regarding this specific issue on stack overflow, but perhaps there is a simple difference in how strings are handled on windows vs linux?
See print documentation, also see PC using documentation, which treats end-of-line but doesn't mention string differences.
You need to wrap the awk
command with double quotes, and escape all the in-command double quotes with ^"
outside of the quotes:
echo "complicated output to be parsed with interesting word otherword" | awk "{ if ($0 ~ "^"".*sasquatch"^"") {print "^"" there is a sasquatch"^""} else if ($0 ~ "^"".*otherword"^"") {print "^""other word..."^""}}"
See the screenshot: