How to run an awk commands in Windows?

Question

I have downloaded gawk from here, but I can't seem to figure out how to use it. I am simply trying to run a command, not to write one.

Answer 1

If you want to avoid including the full path to awk, you need to update your PATH variable to include the path to the directory where awk is located, then you can just type

awk

to run your programs.

Go to Control Panel->System->Advanced and set your PATH environment variable to include "C:Program Files (x86)GnuWin32in" at the end (separated by a semi-colon) from previous entry.