Anybody know what's wrong with this syntax?

awk -v job="$job" 'BEGIN { FS="|"}
{print $1,$2," ",$4," ",$3\n,$5,"\n"}' list


It's keeping give me this message:

awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: bailing out near line 1


It seems awk has problem with my BEGIN command.

Any help is appreciated!

With just a quick look, you don't have an END statement - unless you didn't post the whole thing. Also make sure you are using the correct awk - at least on Solaris (2.6) /usr/bin/awk and /usr/xpg4/bin/awk are different - no -v option on /usr/bin/awk.

I don't think I have to put END statement ???

Like I stated - just a quick look. And it seems to work on one version of awk (even without the END statement) but not the one normally in the PATH (see my other post - it was updated). What's your OS and version?

How do I know?

The command uname -a should give you the output to find the version and OS.

Here it is:
I guess it's SonOS and version 5.7?


SunOS milford2 5.7 Generic_106541-19 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-1