On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, [iso-8859-2] Roubíček Zdeněk (T-Systems PragoNet) wrote:
> Any idea what I am missing? You don't say what you are expecting these awk samples to do... > >cat test ^^^^ There is a command called test, so you should not use that name for test files. > 1;1 > 2;2 > >awk -F ';' '{print $1}' > 1 > 2 This is doing what you've told it. The field separator is ; and it prints the first field on each line (assuming you are actually running it on the 'test' file--the command as shown won't do it). > >awk -F ' FS=";" {print $1}' > 1;1 > 2 Don't use the -F option if you are setting the field separator inside the code. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"