Shell Programming and Scripting

tried running it straigth from the prompt without the fullstop
awk: syntax error near line 5
awk: illegal statement near line 5
with the fullstop
ksh: syntax error: `(' unexpected

what's the 'fullstop'?
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see scripts attached
i was just trying to test fadditional lines in the perl script
reformat .sh reformats the file customerdata.txt
all files are in the same folder and have executable permissions
after i get the test.pl to work
i am going to try and integrate it into the bpformatter.txt
above the open( my $in, $self->{FILENAME} ) or $halt = 1;

really and truly what has occured is that i wanted to do the changes in NWCformatter
in that each record now actullay contains two records
this is why i initially created the reformatnwc.sh
as i did not know how to accomplish this in the nwcformatter perl script
as it seems that script can only return 1 record

if you're under Sun/Solaris, try using '/usr/bin/nawk' or '/usr/xpg4/bin/awk' instead of plain/old/buggy 'awk' (in your reformatnwc.sh).

ill try that but just to note the reformatnwc.sh is working
when i execute it by itself
its when i try and run it from the perl command that it fails

turns out perl environment had changed so was referring to a library location that didnt exist