concatenate two files within an awk script

[jarthi]

Hi:

This is my script so far(except the last statement):

{
res = sprintf ("%d_%d",$1,$2)
printf "test\n" > res

cat /home/testart >> res #I can't do this

}

How do I accomplish the last statement in awk? I know 'cat' cannot be used.

Thanks,
Arthi.

 

[grega]

Some more info would be helpful ... what are you trying to achieve? what do the input files look like? and what output do you expect?

Post an example and we should be able to sort it

Greg.

 

[flogrr]

This may do what you want- it prints out the file
you want to concatenate to, then formats and
prints field 1 and field 2 from the file that contains
the data you want to append to the first file.

awk '

FILENAME=="file1"{ print }

FILENAME=="file2"{

res = sprintf("%d_%d",$1,$2)

print res }' file1 file2 > file3


Hope this helps you!


flogrr
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