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 Sorry for not very clearly formulated question. I wrote those commands =
by hand and obviously with lot of errors.

>=20
> > >awk -F ' FS=3D";" {print $1}'
> > 1;1
> > 2
>=20
> Don't use the -F option if you are setting the field separator inside
> the code.
>=20

 This was a mistake.=20

The problem is solved by=20
awk 'BEGIN{FS=3D";"}{print $1}' testfile=20

as suggested by Dough Poland.=20

Thx for the replies.

 r.

Zdenek Roubicek

Department of Network Management
T-Systems PragoNet, a.s.
Na Pankr=E1ci 1685/19,140 21 Prague 4
Phone : +420 2 3609 9615	=09
Fax   : +420 2 3609 9999
E-Mail: zdenek.roubicek@pragonet.cz

=20