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awk syntax error
I generate a fullpath variable two different ways:

1) concat two variables rootpath and relpath to give me fullpath

2) use 'find' to get the fullpath

when I echo the variable, I get the same output for both. However,
I print the variable from method 1 in the below loop I get "awk syntax error near line 1" The second method works fine



while read line
do
if test $i -ge 1;
then
echo "$line" | awk -F'|' '{print "cd" " '$fullpath'/" }' >> RemoveFiles.sh
echo "$line" | awk -F'|' '{print "rm \""$1 "\"" }' >> RemoveFiles.sh


fi

i=$i+1
done < $input


contents of fullpath:
/supmm/su/gsa44/svr/locs/workloc

From echo there are no differences between the two variables

Can anyone explain why method 1 does not work but method 2 does?


thanks,
 
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