awk syntax error

k@ssidy · #1 (**permalink**) 06-14-2005

can anyone see the awk syntax error near line 1? I keep getting this error and I'm not familiar with awk very well yet so it is hard for me to see the errors.
fyi: deleteuser* refers to files in the directory where each one ends with a different date

ls -1 /mfupload/prod02/ftp/deleteuser* | while read line
do
cat $line | awk -F '|' {printf "%s|%\n", $5, $3} >> ftp.dat
done

bhargav · #2 (**permalink**) 06-14-2005

cat $line

replace it by

echo $line

k@ssidy · #3 (**permalink**) 06-14-2005

why? I honestly don't know why echo is correct, please explain.

k@ssidy · #4 (**permalink**) 06-14-2005

changing the single quotes to double did not fix the error, sorry

Just Ice · #5 (**permalink**) 06-14-2005

... i think you're missing the single quotes around the curly brackets ... see bold red ...

Code:

cat $line | awk -F "|" '{printf "%s|%\n", $5, $3}' >> ftp.dat

k@ssidy · #6 (**permalink**) 06-14-2005

sorry, those single quotes didn't do the trick either.

Just Ice · #7 (**permalink**) 06-14-2005

instead of this ...

Code:

cat $line | awk -F '|' {printf "%s|%\n", $5, $3} >> ftp.dat

try this ...

Code:

cat $line | awk -F "|" '{printf "%s|%\n", $5, $3}' >> ftp.dat

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