query on awk behaviour

[janab]

Hi

I have been using awk for some time now and i am facing an issue...

The below works only on fedora 7 and above but this gives the syntax error when run centos, RHEL and even on Fedora 6.

ls -l | awk {'print "dir",$1,$2,0,0'}

Can you please help to analyze the behavior and explain why this works on fedora 7 and above and why not on other OS.

Regards
Janardhan B

[nmset]

Just to clarify things, what do you expect as output ?

On Mandriva 2010.0, the output is as expected :

dir -rwx------ 1 0 0
...


I won't really be able to find out 'why this works on fedora 7 and above and why not on other OS.'

[janab]

Hi

Thanks for your reply...

The output what you got is the expected one.

Please let me know if you get to know the reason.

Regards
Janab