This is the error message I encounter during apply awk...

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Question by phil
Submitted on 9/1/2003
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This is the error message I encounter during apply awk command: awk: syntax error near line 1 awk: bailing out near line 1 I am appreciate if I able to get some reply from this.

Answer by Gus
Submitted on 8/24/2004
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Without more information on your actual command line and the contents of the files you reference, I can't be specific, but basically, this means you haven't provided valid "program text", which is either the content of the file whose name follows -f, or the first non-option argument if there is no -f.

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