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Old 11-04-2009
Thanks ghostdog. I tried your suggestion and got the following error:

awk: syntax error near line 4
awk: illegal statement near line 4

Thanks for any additional help.

-Matt
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Old 11-04-2009

If you are on Solaris, use nawk or /usr/xpg4/bin/awk.
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