Behaviour of gawk in AIX 4.3.3

[Cuthie]

Can anyone help me with an issue I have with gawk on AIX4.3.3?

The following worked with gawk on Tru64 unix but doesnt on AIX:-

[WAVESDEV:root]/usr/local/bin/waves> vi waves_create_staff
"waves_create_staff" 35 lines, 861 characters
gawk -F, -v username=$1 -v fullname="$2" -v password=$3 -v gname=$4 chopn=$5 '
$0 == "" { print $0 ; next }
{
split($1, a, "+&quot
if ( a[2] == gname )
printf "%s+%s", a[1], chopn
else
printf "%s+%s", a[1], username

if ( NF == 1 ) {
printf "\n"
next
}

if ( $2 == "DESCRIPTION" && a[2] != gname ) {
printf ",DESCRIPTION,%s\n", fullname
next
}

if ( $2 == "PASSWORD" && a[2] != gname ) {
printf ",PASSWORD,%s\n", password
next
}

if ( $2 == "MYGROUP" && a[2] != gname ) {
printf ",MYGROUP,%s\n", chopn
next
}

for( i=2; i <= NF; i++ ) {
printf &quot;,%s&quot;, $i
}
printf &quot;\n&quot;
}'


commmand is

cat file | above procedure passing variables.

get following error::-

gawk: cmd. line:2: fatal: cannot open file `
$0 == &quot;&quot; { print $0 ; next }
{
split($1, a, &quot;+&quot
if ( a[2] == gname )
printf &quot;%s+%s&quot;, a[1], chopn
else
printf &quot;%s+%s&quot;, a[1], username

if ( NF == 1 ) {
printf &quot;\n&quot;
next
}

if ( $2 == &quot;DESCRIPTION&quot; && a[2] != gname ) {
printf &quot;,DESCRIPTION,%s\n&quot;, fullname
next
}

if ( $2 == &quot;PASSWORD&quot; && a[2] != gname ) {
printf &quot;,PASSWORD,%s\n&quot;, password
next
}

if ( $2 == &quot;MYGROUP&quot; && a[2] != gname ) {
printf &quot;,MYGROUP,%s\n&quot;, chopn
next
}

for( i=2; i <= NF; i++ ) {
printf &quot;,%s&quot;, $i
}
printf &quot;\n&quot;
}' for reading (File name too long)

 

[gheist]

Was native awk unsatisfactory?

ad backslashes before ' or `