diff -up ./tests/fips/cavs_scripts/validate1.sh.fix_cavs ./tests/fips/cavs_scripts/validate1.sh
--- ./tests/fips/cavs_scripts/validate1.sh.fix_cavs	2024-09-12 14:39:41.421586862 -0700
+++ ./tests/fips/cavs_scripts/validate1.sh	2024-09-12 14:39:55.036747283 -0700
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ name=`basename $request .req`
 echo ">>>>>  $name"
 sed -e 's;
;;g' -e 's;	; ;g' -e '/^#/d' $extraneous_response ${TESTDIR}/resp/${name}.rsp > /tmp/y1
 # if we didn't generate any output, flag that as an error
-size=`sum /tmp/y1 | awk '{ print $NF }'`
+size=`sum /tmp/y1 | awk '{ print $1 }'`
 if [ $size -eq 0 ]; then
    echo "${TESTDIR}/resp/${name}.rsp: empty"
    exit 1;