Persistant awk error

debian111 — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 02:21:39 GMT

Hi

I have this two lines of awk code in some script awk '{FS="|"}

awk 'BEGIN { print " some text for test purposes " }'
Script only should print " some text for test purposes " ... that is only requrement on this script....

when I run this script I got an error like below

awk: Syntax error at source line 2

awk: Context is

awk >>> BEGIN <<<

awk: Missing }

awk: Bailing out at source line 2

And no I am not able to figure out what could be a possible reason for this error.
It would be help me a lot if someone know and have free time and will to write down what I should change in order to make this works.

Thanks

Re: Persistant awk error

Ivan Ferreira — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:01:21 GMT

You dont need BEGIN and END declarations:

The script could be like this:

cat awk.script

{ print "Some text" }

echo | awk -f awk.script

Remember that awk spect to precess something (a file or command output), that is why the echo is inserted.

What I did not understand is the FS="|" declaration, anyway you can declare variables like this:

BEGIN { FS=":" }
{ print "Username",$1, "UID", $3 }

awk -f /tmp/awk.script /etc/passwd

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