Textpad: Setting up tool/command

[Jeff Rozycki]

I have an awk script that I run through a bash shell in Cygwin on an NT box. I execute it as so: $>dedup.awk file
It will scan the file and remove duplicate lines and echo the unique lines to the shell. How do I set this up as a tool within Textpad? I understand how to use configure/preferences to click tools/add/program but need more instructions on the what to put in for the command and parameters. Am I supposed to put the awk.exe for the command or my awk dedup script. I want to be able to depup a file I have opened in Textpad and have the unique lines be captured to another file. The way I thought it should be setup was:

(Command) D:\Applications\Cygwin\bin\awk.exe

(Parameters) D:\Applications\Cygwin\usr\local\bin\dedup.awk -f $file

but this produced a blank file (the file has duplicate lines)

[David Vanden Heuvel]

You need to setup a dos command, it will put cmd.exe in the command line automatically. This opens a command prompt window.

your parameters could then be:
awk D:\Applications\Cygwin\usr\local\bin\dedup.awk -f $file

if you really need to run in a bash shell you'll need to be more creative. I'm not a bash shell expert but you might try something like:
bash -c "awk D:\Applications\Cygwin\usr\local\bin\dedup.awk -f $file"

I tried it with a very simple example:
bash -c ls
which seemed to work.

good luck.
David.

[Jeff Rozycki]

Thanks David! The key clue you gave me was trying to run bash first and then call the awk.exe and script. FYI here is what the parameter line looks like:

D:\Applications\Cygwin\bin\bash -c "D:/Applications/Cygwin/bin/awk -f D:/Applications/Cygwin/usr/local/bin/dedup.awk $UNIXfile"


I had a typo in a previous post of the dedup.awk script. Here is the correct code:

#! /bin/awk -f

{
if (data[$0]++ == 0)
lines[++count] = $0
}

END {
for (i = 1; i <= count; i++)
print lines
}