Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello I have the following awk script:

Code:

BEGIN {
        {FS = " " }
        {print "\t\tIllegal Loggon Attempts on MAIL\n"}
        {"date" | getline d}
        {printf "\t  %s\n",d }
        {print "Loggon Name\t\t\t Number of Attempts\n"}
        {print"================================================\n"}
       }


{printf "%-28s\t%s\n", $2, $1   }

I call it from a shell script using the following command:

awk -f processing.awk names2.tmp > email.tmp

awk reports no error but it seems that the entire BEGIN clause is not processed only the {printf "%-28s\t%s\n", $2, $1 }. And I do need the header to print. I tried commenting out {printf "%-28s\t%s\n", $2, $1 } and then the header prints! It seems that somehow the final directive is overwriting the BEGIN clause. Can someone tell me how to fix this problem?

Cannot reproduce, what platform and awk version/implementation is this?

try this


BEGIN {
{FS = " " }
{print "\t\tIllegal Loggon Attempts on MAIL\n"}
{command = "date" | getline d}
{printf "\t %s\n",d }
{print "Loggon Name\t\t\t Number of Attempts\n"}
{print"================================================\n"}
}