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Script using awk works only as super user

hi friends,

I am a new Sun Solaris 10 user. I have the following script

line=$(awk '{if(substr($0,1,1)!="#" &&
substr($0,1,1)!=";" &&
substr($0,1,1)!=" " &&
substr($0,1,1)!="/" &&
substr($0,1,1)!="*" &&
substr($0,1,1)!="\\" &&
length($0)!=0)
{print $0}
}' filename

This works fine when i login as super user but it does not work with other user and show error.

Do i need to change any enviornment variables please help

Thanks
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I'm guessing there is an alias awk=nawk. Solaris awk is, um, defective, so advanced features require nawk - the new awk. As superuser, try
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type awk
, then see what you get as another user from the same command.

In general you do not want to run around the system doing things in privileged mode. It's to easy to do something horrendous
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Thak you i will try and look into it
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still the same

I am still geting the error

....ksh[line]: awk: not found

but with superuser it stll working
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Code:
Login as superuser:- 
type awk

then login as other user and add awk path to PATH variable in .profile and relogin
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