Re: matching column variables from two awks!

On Mar 22, 7:44 pm, Ed Morton <mor...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On 3/22/2008 6:23 PM, Kenny McCormack wrote:
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>
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> > In article <47E59349.30...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> > Ed Morton  <mor...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> >>On 3/22/2008 9:37 AM, spacegoose wrote:
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> >>>I am running Solaris 10. Also tried on Solaris 9 -same result.
>
> >>Ahh, you're using old, broken awk (/usr/bin/awk on Solaris). Use a
modern awk,
> >>e.g. GNU awk (gawk), New awk (nawk) or /usr/xpg4/bin/awk on Solaris.
>
> >>        Ed.
>
> > This thread went on for quite a while, didn't it?
>
> > Amazing how many of these back-and-forths eventually boil down to:
> > Oh, by the way, I'm using Solaris.
>
> > (And if not that, the other one is: Oh, I'm writing the code on a
> > Windows box [and running/testing it on Unix])
>
> The other biggy is "post sample input and expected output". I always
forget to
> say "post sample input and THE expected output FROM THAT INPUT". Got to
remember
> that....
>
>         Ed.

That did it. Thanks. One last thing: Can this be combined into one
file to act on myFile:
so that everything is contained in one file (with a reference to
myFile inside)?