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Timo Salmi  
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 More options Aug 29 2002, 2:43 am
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From: t...@UWasa.Fi (Timo Salmi)
Date: 29 Aug 2002 09:27:23 +0300
Local: Thurs, Aug 29 2002 2:27 am
Subject: Re: get most recent filename
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Larry__Weiss  <l...@airmail.net> wrote:
> Timo Salmi wrote:
> >   dir /o-d /b|gawk 'NR==1{printf"@set file_=%%s\n",$1}'>>tmp$$$.bat
> It's really too bad that GAWK isn't a standard part of the MSDOS batch
> tools.   As your example shows, GAWK enables some very simple solutions
> to frequently needed batch scripting challenges.

Yes. For exactly this practical reason I have added two
Unix-originating tools, awk and sed, to my regular MS-DOS commands
arsenal, my batch FAQ inclusive. What I particularly like about
these two is that they do not interfere with the original platform.
Also, they sometimes much enhance portability from Unix ideas if a
solution already happens to be available on that side.

QBASIC, which can more legitimately be considered part of the
original MS-DOS, is also a tool that can be used to solve many, even
tricky MS-DOS batch problems. But not nearly as conveniently as
especially gawk.

On the other hand, if one is just interested in the pure art of
batch programming, producing batches with strictly the original set
becomes an interesting challenge. Benny Pedersen, in particular, has
put much nice effort in presenting such batch solutions.

> Since GAWK is free and very widely available, I welcome solutions that
> use it.   A large part of my personal batch script collection uses it.

For those who do not have the links, e.g. the ones I use:

 233923 Mar 25 1995 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/unix/gawk2156.zip
 gawk2156.zip GNU awk text scanning and processing language

 20368 Oct 1 1991 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/unix/sed15x.zip
 sed15x.zip HHSED executable, E.Raymond+D.Kirschbaum+H.Helman

   All the best, Timo

--
Prof. Timo Salmi ftp & http://garbo.uwasa.fi/ archives 193.166.120.5
Department of Accounting and Business Finance  ; University of Vaasa
mailto:t...@uwasa.fi <http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/>  ; FIN-65101,  Finland
Useful batch files and tricks ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tsbat.zip


 
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