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# 8  
Old 04-28-2011
Ok. If "-" should be allowed within a file name but not at the beginning, "=" occurring anywhere should be tagged as error.
# 9  
Old 04-28-2011
Is that a question or a statement?
# 10  
Old 04-28-2011
I am stating that "-" should be allowed within a file name but not at the beginning, whereas "=" occurring anywhere should be tagged as error.

This is what I'm trying to do.

Then I want to have Lst containing all the strings considered in error.
# 11  
Old 04-28-2011
That'll teach me not to start reading from post #3 in a thread Smilie

Just remove the $ - my wrong assumption.
# 12  
Old 04-28-2011
Am a bit confused about the Record Separator. What is it supposed to do?
# 13  
Old 04-28-2011
Well, you were using tr to translate spaces into newlines.

RS in awk can do the same thing here (by using space as a record (line) separator). If you want to put the output record separator back to spaces, before the output is printed, add ORS=" " to the end.
# 14  
Old 04-28-2011
When I remove the RS=" ", all the list is displayed. I thought it will display only the ones that match!!!
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