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Remove lines from .txt gawk
Okay so how do I remove lines from new.txt if they're in tried.txt,
For example, if new.txt contains 123 and tried.txt contains 123, so remove 123 from in.txt and output results to new2.txt.
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How to Specify ^ " white-space At the Same Time in Windows Command Prompt
I have difficulties understanding how to specify special characters ^ and " as parameters in windows command prompt.
I am using gnuwin32's diff in Win 7 . It has a -I option that accepts a regular expression from the command line. I want to invoke…

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GnuWin32 make returns strange error on square braket
I am trying to compile a project on Windows 7 with GNUWin32 make. I am running make from the folder where Makefile sits, but I receive the following error:
[ ! -d libmf ] && mkdir -p libmf
"[" is not recognised as internal or external command,…
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Redirect `tr -d` on windows?
I can't find a way to redirect the output of GnuWin32's tr to a file:
(dev) go|w:\srv> dkversion . | jq .vcs | tr -d \" > vcs.txt
tr: extra operand `>'
Try `tr --help' for more information.
Error: writing output failed: Invalid argument
The…

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I'm Unable to do IO with Gawk using WINAPI CreateProcess function
I have a small program which takes input and does some preprocessing on it before continuing its business. (The classic case of "make us a program; oh, we don't know the exact data format yet.") For this step being more scriptable, I've decided to…

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What is the syntax for invoking GnuWin32's find exec on windows cmd shell?
Invoking GnuWin32's find.exe . -name "foo" -exec backup.bat {} \; produces the following error:
find: missing argument to `-exec'
What is the proper syntax?

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Issue with Gnuwin32 make
Trying to compile the makefiles from midifile.sapp.org gives me the following output:
process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, which wget, ...) failed.
process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, which curl, ...) failed.
process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, uname,…

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Change order of txt file lines divided by ":" using awk or cut
I have a text file called: example.txt which contains these lines:
email1:location1
email2:location2
email3:location3
I want to change it up to look like this:
location1:email1
location2:email2
location3:email3
What would be the easiest way…

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tre agrep via gnuwin32 - newb getting no output from tre agrep
Admittedly I have not used agrep on *nix before, so this may just be a newb mistake on my part, but rather than spin up a *nix box and play there, I thought I might ask the smart people here first.
I installed tre agrep via gnuwin32 on my Windows…

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Variables in cURL
As you all know tokens can be very long strings and become a hassle to copy and past over and over.
How can I store the token string as a variable and call it when I need it in cURL
example
token: "ABCDefG"
I want to be able to call something…

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Calling gnuwin's grep from php returns null
I work on windows 7. I try to execute the Gnuwin32 grep command from within a PHP script like so var_dump(shell_exec("grep")), so I can see if it works or not. Instead of the expected output of usage: and things like that I get null.
C:\gunwin\bin…

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How to improve a GNUwin32 join command?
Am not able to produce the desired results using join.
Am running GNUwin32 on Windows 7 64 bit. Am running join version 5.3.0.1936 and gawk version 3.1.6.2962.
The following two tables are input:
Table_1
UID_C CID
C000002 31799
C000002…

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A new suite of gnu tools for windows
I recently found a new (well RECENT) project that ports gnu tools to windows. Problem is that I can't find it anymore.
It is not gnuwin32, cygwin, unxutils, mingw...
I think it is fairly recent and hosted on sourceforge or github and bash is…

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how can I apply command line function on several files
Hello I would like to know how to generate a few files on the command lines. Say I am in a directory and
B:\>ls
201209 201210 201211 201212 201301 201302 201303 20130605_files_saved.txt all_files_demande.txt all_files_dsi.txt
Each…

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Resolve Shift/Reduce warning in GnuWin32 Bison?
i have the following rules and when implementing them with bison i get 5 shift/reduce warnings.
a part of the Rules are:
Type----> BOOL
| INT
| CHAR
| DOUBLE
| ID
| INT '['']'
;
rule: VarDec…

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