awk scripts problem after upgrade from RHEL-2.1 to RHEL-4

[Ben Russo]

Jack Challen wrote:
> Ben Russo wrote:
> <snip>
>> and it would give you a list of files in the directories that are 
>> listed in /u/apps/utilities/idxpath that contain the date string in 
>> the range given.
> 
>> any ideas?
> 
> ls /u/apps/utilities/idxpath | grep -e $(seq -s ' -e ' 060501 060510)
> 
> 
> where the final two numbers represent the start and end dates 
> respectively. It wouldn't be too hard to script with "expr" so that it 
> evaluated your relative dates...
> 
> jack

True, there are a thousand easy ways to skin that cat.
The real reason I am asking is that it seems wierd that a simple shell 
script that calls an AWK script would break after upgrading from 
RHEL-2.1 to RHEL-4.
I thought maybe people knew what the problem might be.
And I wasn't so concerned about this simple AWK script as I was
that maybe the *cause* of this problem could break other things on the
server that I am not yet aware of.

-Ben.