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Asked: 2026-05-20T21:42:14+00:00

A=(aaa bbb ccc) cat abc.txt | awk ‘{ print $1, ${A[$1]} }’ I want

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A=(aaa bbb ccc)    
cat abc.txt | awk '{ print $1, ${A[$1]} }'

I want to index an array element based on the $1, but the code above is not correct in awk syntax. Could someone help?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you are going to be hard-coding the A array, you can just initialize it in awk

    awk 'BEGIN{A[0]="aaa";A[1]="bbb"}{ print $1, A[$1] }' abc.txt
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