05-04-2006
Thanks a lot.
But when I tried using the above nawk command, I got the followin error;
"nawk: empty regular expression
source line number 1
context is
{ gsub(/ >>> /,// <<< , $6); print }"
Not sure on what I m missing out.
Please do help me out. Thanks...
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