I have a flatfile A.txt

date|products|notes|location
121117|a108|this is a test|florida
121118|b111|just test it|tampa

awk -F'|' '{ print $2 ":" $3 }' A.txt > $4.txt

awk -F'|' '{ close(o);o=$4 ".txt";print $2,$3 >> o}' OFS=: A.txt

awk -F'|' '{ fname=$4; print $2 ":" $3 > fname; close (fname)}'    A.txt

Jim, How do i write output to /some/where/fname.txt?
vgersh99, how do i write it to folder /some/where/o.txt ?
I write to local. If i add path i got syntax erro.
Thanks

# change this:
fname=$4;
#to
fname= "/path/to/some/where" $4;

Thanks