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# 9  
Old 09-24-2012
If this is truly in awk, you need > "filename.txt" with the filename in quotes.

But you haven't posted your entire code, so I have no idea why it's complaining about division by zero.
# 10  
Old 09-24-2012
Thanks a lot !!! It worked .. Btw could you explain why i need to put in Quotes ???
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Old 09-25-2012
Because if you don't, it will take it to be a variable name. awk's not shell. Smilie
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