AWK not processing BEGIN directive

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hello I have the following awk script:

BEGIN {
        {FS = " " }
        {print "\t\tIllegal Loggon Attempts on MAIL\n"}
        {"date" | getline d}
        {printf "\t  %s\n",d }
        {print "Loggon Name\t\t\t Number of Attempts\n"}
        {print"================================================\n"}
       }


{printf "%-28s\t%s\n", $2, $1   }

I call it from a shell script using the following command:

awk -f processing.awk names2.tmp > email.tmp

awk reports no error but it seems that the entire BEGIN clause is not processed only the {printf "%-28s\t%s\n", $2, $1 }. And I do need the header to print. I tried commenting out {printf "%-28s\t%s\n", $2, $1 } and then the header prints! It seems that somehow the final directive is overwriting the BEGIN clause. Can someone tell me how to fix this problem?

2

Cannot reproduce, what platform and awk version/implementation is this?

3

try this

BEGIN {
{FS = " " }
{print "\t\tIllegal Loggon Attempts on MAIL\n"}
{command = "date" | getline d}
{printf "\t %s\n",d }
{print "Loggon Name\t\t\t Number of Attempts\n"}
{print"================================================\n"}
}