Problem with sed and awk - SOLVED

[Roubíček Zdeněk (T-Systems PragoNet)]

 Sorry for not very clearly formulated question. I wrote those commands by hand and obviously with lot of errors.

> 
> > >awk -F ' FS=";" {print $1}'
> > 1;1
> > 2
> 
> Don't use the -F option if you are setting the field separator inside
> the code.
> 

 This was a mistake. 

The problem is solved by 
awk 'BEGIN{FS=";"}{print $1}' testfile 

as suggested by Dough Poland. 

Thx for the replies.

 r.

Zdenek Roubicek

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