02-05-2012
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Originally Posted by
agama
What version of awk are you running, and under which O/S? If you are on a Solaris box you might want to use nawk or /usr/xpg4/bin/awk (I think that's the path -- I don't have a sun box at hand to check this morning).
Not a Sun box, just my MacBook Pro running 10.7
awk version 20070501
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