Re: What does this do?
On 2006-05-17, cyber citizen wrote:
Hi any pointers on what is happening here?
awk '(\$2 == \"T\") || (\$2 == \"B\") { sym = \$3; sub(/^_*/, \"\", sym); print sym}' > <temp_file>
Executing this is giving the following error:
awk: cmd. line:1: (\$2 == \"T\") || (\$2 == \"B\") { sym = \$3; sub(/^_*/, \"\", sym); print sym}
awk: cmd. line:1: ^ backslash not last character on line
Read the error message. Note that it tells you what command is
producing the error.
What command does awk see?
What do you want awk to see?
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