I have an awk script to process a text file before importing it. The script
strips rows from the text file after hitting a line containing only " ".

This works from the DOS prompt in c:\filepath\:
c:\filepath\awk95 "/^ $/{nextfile} 1" c:\filepath\input.txt
c:\filepath\output.text

The following does not work:
strAWKCommandLine = _
"c:\filepath\awk95 " & Chr(34) & "/^ $/{nextfile} 1" & Chr(34) & "
c:\filepath\input.txt c:\filepath\output.text"

Shell(strAWKCommandLine,1)

Another question:
While debugging this, how can I keep the DOS window open so I can see any
error messages?

An example I saw used "/k" :
Shell(Environ$("comspec") & " /k yourfile.bat", vbNormalFocus)

I can't get that code structure to work.

Thanks for any help on using Shell or keeping the DOS window open

Larry Mehl






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