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Issues with awk and tcsh

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http://www.unix.com – Hello experts, I have two files which I'm uploading. One is an awk script and other file acts as an input to the script via positional parameter. awk -f intlmenu.awk jobsq.txt This run fine in C shell on SCO OpenServer Release 5.0.7. When I run it on Solaris 10 ( tcsh shell ) I get the following error Code: awk -f intlmenu.awk jobsq.txt awk: string too long near line 103 awk: syntax error near line 103 awk: illegal statement near line 103 awk: newline in string near line 103 The 103 line in intlmenu script is as follows Code:  printf "echo \"Data File Start (HowTos)

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Submitted by Shoutmeloud on 12/04/2012

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