How can I use ":" as an AWK field separator?

Given the following command,

echo "1: " | awk '/1/ -F ":" {print $1}'

why does AWK output:

1:

Solution

-F is a command line argument, not AWK syntax. Try:

echo '1: ' | awk -F  ':' '/1/ {print $1}'

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