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From: whb@vax135.UUCP (Wilson H. Bent)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: executable awk scripts
Message-ID: <1881@vax135.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 16-Sep-87 16:23:24 EDT
Article-I.D.: vax135.1881
Posted: Wed Sep 16 16:23:24 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 19-Sep-87 11:53:16 EDT
Reply-To: whb@vax135.UUCP (Wilson H. Bent)
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Summary: how to?

[ The line-eater lives!  Probably because people keep feeding it...]

Given that these files are executable, why does this fail:

	#!/bin/awk
	{ print $1 }

when this works:

	#!/bin/sh
	/bin/awk '{ print $1 }'

FYI: tested under two BSD variants (sorry, no SysV):
Sun UNIX 4.2 Release 3.3
Ultrix V2.0-1 System #1: Wed Jul 15 10:28:13 EDT 1987
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