Shell Programming and Scripting

Thanks.
I will try and let you know.

Its working

Code:

 printf("The following entry from line %d is for Branch %d:\n%s",
            FNR, entry, r[entry]) > no

But if I want to print the full line as well as branch. Also, I want serial no.
Required output:

Code:

(001) The following entry from entry 5 "print full line here" is for branch 2711:
# Branch 2711 is printed here
(002) The following entry from entry 9 "print full line here" is for branch 2716:
# Branch 2716 is printed here
(003) The following entry from entry 13 "print full line here" is for branch 2916:
# Branch 2916 is printed here

Then, using other file (2.txt having one column of some serial numbers) I wish to retreive those branches from above output corresponding to values from 2.txt. For example, I want to retreive 002 from above output:
Required output:

Code:

(002) The following entry from entry 9 "print full line here" is for branch 2716:
# Branch 2716 is printed here

Please guide.
Thanks

With all of the examples I've provided you in both of the active threads you started titled "Help in awk/bash", you should be able to replace the awk printf statement:

Code:

 printf("The following entry from line %d is for Branch %d:\n%s",
            FNR, entry, r[entry]) > no

with one that will produce the output you want.

You know how to create a variable to count the number of lines you've written (e.g., outcnt), you know how to increment that variable before retrieving its value (++outcnt), you know how to use a printf format specifier to print a value as a 3 digit decimal value with leading zero fill (%03d), you know that in awk $0 is the contents of the current line, and you know how to use a printf format specifier to print a variable as a string (%s).

The only thing you might be missing is how to print a double quote character in a printf format string (since you want the full line to be printed between double quote characters). You do that by escaping each double quote you want to print with a backslash character. An example doing that is:
printf("Print a \"%s\" string\n", "quoted")

Please show me that all of the time I've put into providing samples for you is helping you learn how to use awk by trying this one on your own and then showing us what you've done!

Thanks.
Its working. I modified the way of printing and got the required output.

Great.

Have you figured out how to use awk, sed, or the shell to extract entries listed in 2.txt from the output you just produced?

I modified the code in printf statement for first output and that helped me in getting second output. yippie

Thanks a lot to you.