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# 8  
Old 05-17-2012
Could it be that the empty field is not the last field?
Code:
awk -F'\t' -v f=file1 '$5==""{print>f; next}1' infile > file2

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# 9  
Old 05-17-2012
Line endings

Code:
[mute@geek ~]$ file input
input: ASCII text, with CR line terminators
[mute@geek ~]$ awk '{print NR,NF "::\t" $0}' input
1 9::   2       3       4       4       5
[mute@geek ~]$ awk '{print NR,NF "::\t" $0}' RS="\r" input
1 5::   1       2       3       4       5
2 4::   1       2       3       4

# 10  
Old 05-17-2012
yes it worked... something weird was wrong but you guys fixed it. thank you all

Kyle
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