Question

I know I can redirect awk’s print output to another file from within a script, like this:

awk '{print $0 >> 'anotherfile' }' 2procfile 

(I know that’s dummy example, but it’s just an example…)

But what I need is to redirect output to another file, which has a dynamic name like this

awk -v MYVAR'somedinamicdata' '{print $0 >> 'MYWAR-SomeStaticText' }' 2procfile 

And the outpus should be redirected to somedinamicdata-SomeStaticText.

I know I can do it via:

awk '{print $0  }' 2procfile >> '$MYVAR-somedinamicdata' 

But the problem is that it’s a bigger awk script, and I have to output to several files depending on certain conditions (and this awk script is called from another bash, and it passes some dynamic variable via the -v switch… and son on.

Is it possible anyhow?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

i think

awk -v MYVAR='somedinamicdata' '{print $0 >> (MYVAR '-SomeStaticText') }' 2procfile 

should do it. String concatenation in awk is just put one after another.