Having to press ENTER, then CTRL-D to get program to finish 1

[okie23]

This program looks through a dir and shows what tyes they are and inserts the results into a file called "holdfile". The problem is in order to get the program to run I have to press ENTER twice and then CTRL-D for the command prompt to come up and program to finish. Any possible reason why?

nawk '
homed = home "/" user
{if (ctr<1){system("file dirs* ")}}
fi
++ctr
' $homed > holdfile

Thank you,
Keith

 

[PHV]

You are mixin shell and awk syntax in your awk program !
Why not just do this in shell ?
file dirs* >holdfile


Hope This Help, PH.
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