How to use gnu awk for windows

Question

I am not sure if this is the right place for this question but since I am trying to write a batch file and gnu awk is giving me problems, I thought I'd ask it here.

My purpose is quite simple. I'd like to keep track of PIDs of windows processes in files. For instance I want to push the PIDs of putty.exe processes into a file called putty.pid, with the following command:

tasklist | find "putty.exe" | awk '{print $2}' > putty.pid

and this is what I am getting on my dos window

C:\MyUtil>tasklist | find "putty" | awk '{print $2}' > putty.pid
awk: '{print
awk: ^ invalid char ''' in expression

can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong here ? I freshly downloaded awk from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gawk.htm

and extracted one single file awk.exe into my current directory. I might be missing a dll or something but its documentation is not very helpful.

Answer 1

在Windows中，您在命令行中传递给awk的脚本必须用双引号引起来，与在传递给find的字符串中使用的引号相同。