Sorry for not very clearly formulated question. I wrote those commands by hand and
obviously with lot of errors.
>
> > >awk -F ' FS=";" {print $1}'
> > 1;1
> > 2
>
> Don't use the -F option if you are setting the field separator inside
> the code.
>
This was a mistake.
The problem is solved by
awk 'BEGIN{FS=";"}{print $1}' testfile
as suggested by Dough Poland.
Thx for the replies.
r.
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