[MonkeyMM]

just want to replace the space and "go" in the sample file to No space and "GO", so I think something like follows would work, but not... couldn't figure out what's wrong... please help!

awk '{ sub(" go", "GO"); print}' test2.txt
awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: illegal statement near line 1

[mike_bike_kite]

You'd do better just using the sed command

cat test2.txt | sed 's/ go/GO/'

Mike

[radoulov]

On Solaris [/usr]/bin/awk is too old and broken.
Use nawk or /usr/xpg4/bin/awk.