I have written a script to awk a file, which beings with STATUS_MESSAGE and read a parameter $STCODE. It should read the second column in the text file i.e. ^1$ and if it meets the condition read the message “See BOA-NBU-1. Partial success”. But I am finding that I am getting an awk failure. Can someone offer some advice!! AWK COMMAND ============= # `awk < nberrors_rules.txt '/^STATUS_MESSAGE / && '$STCODE' ~ $2 '` awk: syntax error near line 1 awk: bailing out near line 1 TEXT FILE - nberrors_rules.txt ======================== STATUS_MESSAGE ^1$ See BOA-NBU-1. Partial success. STATUS_MESSAGE ^(56|58)$ See BOA-NBU-2. Network problems. ......... King Regards Junes

Hi: if your using a file to give awk commands you need to use awk -f(filename of commands). santi

If i try the -f option for awk, i get the "awk: can't open " error message The following awk statement works fine without the -f option `awk <$RULES '/^IGNORE_POLICY / { print $2 }'` Below how i turned on debugging to show what is happening, can someone provide me with some advice!!!! $RULES = /home/nberrors_rules_jm_NEW.txt_TEST $2 = ^219$ of the following (STATUS_MESSAGE ^219$ See BOA-NBU-1. Partial success) MESSAGE=`awk <$RULES '/^STATUS_MESSAGE / && '$STCODE' ~ $2 { for(a=3;a<NF+1;a++) { printf "%s ",$a }}'` ........... + + awk /^STATUS_MESSAGE / && 219 ~ $2 { for(a=3;a<NF+1;a++) { printf "%s ",$a }} + 0< /home/nberrors_rules_jm_NEW.txt_TEST awk: syntax error near line 1 awk: bailing out near line 1 MESSAGE= STCODE_POL_MESSAGE=`awk <$RULES '/^STATUS_MESSAGE_POLICY / && '$STCODE' ~ $2 && toupper("'$POLICY'") ~ toupper($3) { for(a=4;a<NF+1;a++) { printf "%s ",$a }}'` ........... + + awk /^STATUS_MESSAGE_POLICY / && 219 ~ $2 && toupper("emacromsq14") ~ toupper($3) { for(a=4;a<NF+1;a++) { printf "%s ",$a }} + 0< /home/nberrors_rules_jm_NEW.txt_TEST awk: syntax error near line 1 awk: bailing out near line 1 STCODE_POL_MESSAGE= King Regards Junes