[PLUG] awk script weirdness

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

I have a canned awk script that I want to put in a file rather than a
shell function. Should work, start the file

    #!/usr/bin/awk

(I've verified that that's awk.)

I get the error

    jeff@asterix:Research $ ./left-column
    awk: 1: unexpected character '.'
    jeff@asterix:Research $ cat left-column
    #!/usr/bin/awk
    jeff@asterix:Research $ 

Even if the "#!..." is the only line in the file.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

I know, I should just use perl for this, but awk would have worked...

Thanks in advance for any clues.

-- 
 Jeff

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