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What is in your input file? Is it possible that you have one line with valid data and three blank lines? Awk will execute your print statements for each line of input -- whether or not there is...

No ideas, and I don't have an AIX box to play with. Just because I'm wondering, what happens if you run this:


awk 'BEGIN { print "hello world" }'

I updated to a slightly simpler version, but basically you need to use sed (or tr) to remove all CTRL-M characters.

This is because DOS has \r\n on the end of each line while unix only has \r.
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