Problem with sed and awk

[Roubíček Zdeněk (T-Systems PragoNet)]

 Hello questions

 Any idea what I am missing?

>cat test
1;1
2;2
>awk -F ';' '{print $1}'
1
2
>awk -F ' FS=";" {print $1}'
1;1
2
>

awk --version
GNU Awk 3.0.6
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FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE

Regards, rouba

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