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Yoda, I always love your awk replies. They're very economical and clever with the concepts of awk. Thanks.

woot!

# mawk -W version
mawk 1.3.4 20131226
Copyright 2013, Thomas E. Dickey
Copyright 1996, Michael D. Brennan

internal regex
compiled limits:
max NF 32767
sprintf buffer ...

I'm not exactly sure what would cause syntax errors in this script, but let's start with these:

1) All of the lines in the error use double quotes. Sometimes copying and pasting from a web page...

I'm afraid I really don't know much about your distro, so I'll leave that to people that actually know what they're talking about. Setting (or un-setting) a bit, however, goes like this:

# chmod...

In that case, something like this may work:

#! /usr/bin/awk -f

BEGIN {
while ("cat file2" | getline)
{
currency[$1] = $NF
}
...