How to run an awk commands in Windows?

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.

How do I run a command in awk?

Call External Command From awkawk + cp: Read input of a file list, and copy the files to a required destination with a defined name pattern. awk + md5sum: Read input containing a list of filenames, output the filename and the MD5 hash of the file.

What is awk CMD?

The awk command is a Linux tool and programming language that allows users to process and manipulate data and produce formatted reports. The tool supports various operations for advanced text processing and facilitates expressing complex data selections.

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)\GnuWin32\bin" at the end (separated by a semi-colon) from previous entry. enter image description here