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Need help with awk syntax errors

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My guess is that it is not awk that's the problem, but the program that tries to generate the awk script. Since it contains stuff like S["/; s/!.*"], my money is on sed.

Do you have (GNU) sed installed on the machine?

schot  2010-09-01 10:29:50
YES!It was not GNU sed!
tauran  2010-09-01 12:19:14

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