On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:
> awk -f .co-commissioners.addresses '$2 "\t" $2 ", " $1 "\t" $3 "marketing"' > 
> temp.tmp

Why the -f?

> awk: .co-commissioners.addresses:1:    ^ invalid char '@' in expression
>
>   How do I specify to awk that the '@' is part of a field?

This works for me:

$ echo "First Second e-m...@address" |
awk '{print $2 "\t" $2 ", " $1 "\t" $3 "\tmarketing"}' |
cat -A
Second^ISecond, first^ie-m...@address^imarketing$

Regards,
- Robert
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